Shimon okshteyn biography of donald

  • Shimon Okshteyn (1951–2020) was a Ukrainian artist born in the city of Chernivtsi.
  • Shimon Okshteyn was born in 1951 in Chernivtsi, Ukraine, where he graduated from the renowned Odessa Art Institute; he has lived and worked in.
  • Okshteyn's paintings are dreams, in which reality is charged with hope as well as despair — charged with emotional depth and complexity we never truly.

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    Shimon Okshteyn (Ukranian-American, 1951-2020) died of coronavirus in fräsch a few days ago. We något som utförs snabbt exempelvis expressleverans our deepest condolences to family, relatives and friends of artist.
    Shimon showed tremendous artistic promise from an early age. He was accepted into the celebrated Odessa Art Academy in 1970, when he was only 19, and he graduated three years later with a BFA. Okshteyn started to exhibit his work in 1972 while still a student.
    In painting, drawing, sculpture he seeks to fix the artifacts of time. The first series of paintings «Cover girls» (1984) depicts smiling fatal beauties, as if composed of polished geometric shapes. In 1995 - 2010, Okshteyn refers to the canvases of old masters in still life, adding modern objects to them. Works are in the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum.

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    SHIMON OKSHTEYN: STILL-LIFES

    Curated by Tatyana Okshteyn, founder of Black & White Gallery/Project Space, the show is hosted at the Southampton, Long Island studio of her late husband, Shimon Okshteyn.

    Okshteyn's still-lifes—objects whose life has been stilled—not only explore the boundary between ordinary objects and poetic objects—non-art and found art—but between aesthetics and erotics.

    ___Donald Kuspit

    ALSO ON VIEW

    SHIMON OKSHTEYN: NATURAL LANDSCAPE
    Abstracted landscape paintings capture the effect on the artist of the otherworldly quality to the nature of the East End of Long Island.

    EXPLORE DIFFERENT FACETS OF THE ARTIST’S PRACTICE

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    Shimon Okshteyn

    Shimon Okshteyn.
    Dialogue with Objects
    26 July – 3 September 2007

    Press preview: 26 July 2007 at 2pm
    Opening reception: 26 July 2007 at 4pm

    The State Russian Museum
    Marble Palace
    Millionnaya str., 5/1, Saint Petersburg

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    www.KolodzeiArt.org

    The Kolodzei Art Foundation presents Shimon Okshteyn: Dialogue with Objects – solo exhibition by New York-based artist Shimon Okshteyn. This exhibition is the culmination of a two year collaboration between the Kolodzei Art Foundation, USA and the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. It is accompanied by a publication focusing on an in-depth exploration of Shimon Okshteyn’s artistic practice.
    Shimon Okshteyn: Dialogue with Objects brings together the work produced by the artist in the past 25 years since his immigration from the former Soviet Union. It includes a range of paintings, sculptures, drawings, and a selection of newer pieces that are among Okshteyn’s most ambitious to

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