Shimon Okshteyn: Pearls, 2010

“Shimon Okshteyn’s art has a hauntingly evocative quality that suggests nostalgia, captured moments, tender memories. With immense technical skill, he works in pencil and graphite, sometimes collage, as well as sculpture. As subject matter, hats and shoes and corsets of another era are depicted with rare finesse. Somehow, he is able to introduce an other-worldly quality to this work that often has the color and feel of early Daguerreotypes.”  ___Elaine Benson, Bridgehampton, NY

“Okshteyn’s works, whatever their medium, tread a fine line between representa­tion and abstraction, veering more to the latter the closer one looks.”  ___ Donald Kuspit, New York