Shimon Okshteyn: Memory #4

SHIMON OKSHTEYN
Memory #4, 1980 (Don't Forget There Are Relatives Series)
Pencil on paper
27 x 23 inches
Framed

Can be viewed by appointment at the gallery's annex in Southampton, NY. Contact  the gallery to schedule your appointment. 

©Shimon Okshteyn Estate
www.okshteyn.com

Four drawings in this series are of the old Jewish cemetery in the artist's native town in Ukraine - Chernivtsi. The cemetery has been long closed and is weed-choked. The drawings accurately portray toppled and tilting gravestones with Jewish religious symbols and offer haunting testimony to how much the memory of this once vital Jewish community has been relegated to an almost abandoned past.