Shimon Okshteyn: Balducci Fetuccine, 2003

“Shimon Okshteyn’s hyper-real new black and white graphite drawings on canvas of such everyday objects as freshly packaged pasta from Balducci’s and a sevety-five watt light bulb are remarkable for depicting both the object and the photograph of the object which serves as the formal subject of the drawing. His handling of light in its encounter with transparency — the glass of the bulb, the plastic of the pasta package — is particularly marvelous.”
___ Ivan Karp, OK Harris Works of Art, NYC