Shimon Okshteyn: Old Quarters, 1976 – 1978

“As long as Okshteyn remained in Soviet Ukraine. where he was born in 1951 and studied drawing and painting at the Odessa Academy of Fine Arts, his paintings indeed tended to express, with a kind of nostalgic tenderness. mainly his quite filial attachment to the landscapes and citi-scapes of his native Bukovina. Until he emigrated to the United States in 1980, he painted all these in a kind of “School of Paris” idiom vaguely reminiscent al times oi Utrillo and other Montmartre painters.”
___ Edouard Roditi, Los Angeles