Shimon Okshteyn: Steam Iron, 2002

“What makes Okshteyn special is to be able to take traditional means and shape an enormous change in scale: the pencil asked to do heavy carrying. And it works, the image becomes icon, its impact profound.”  ___ J. Bowyer Bell, New York

“Shimon Okshteyn’s monumental graphite drawing of a steam iron lends sculptural solemnity to a mundane appliance. It stands on its heel, a rubber cord coiled around its base like a decorative architrave of a plinth. A squat obelisk, Mr. Okshteyn’s iron takes on the poignance of Cleopatra’s Needle, scarred with the traces of time but still upright.”

___ Maureen Mullarkey, The New York Sun, Here Is The Thing. Simple Thing, Katonah Museum of Art, NY

Courtesy Black & White Gallery/Project Space
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