Shimon Okshteyn: Color of My City, 1980
SHIMON OKSHTEYN
Color of My City | White
Oil on canvas
24″× 32″
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One of the first oil paintings the artist created upon his arrival to the United States from Ukraine in 1980 depicting his native city of Chernivtsi floating in space, viewing it from afar with an immense sensation of newly found freedom.
“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