Shimon Okshteyn: MM-28, 2012

“Shimon Okshteyn’s new paintings carry us through the conceptual and epistemological thicket, responding intuitively to the radically changed visual environment of the 21st century. Here we find an aesthetic that is deeply informed by and that responds to these shifting modes of representation, a material reworking of the very notion of the analogue in a post-digital age.”

“…. leveraging the historical tensions between painting and photography, Okshteyn deploys a completely different set of painterly strategies to achieve a hallucinatory visual effect that delivers a result surprisingly similar to that of the most recent monochromes.”
_______ Beth E. Wilson, Art Historian, NYC

Provenance:
Stux Gallery, NYC, 2013
Janet Lehr Fine Arts, Easthampton, NY, 2018