SHIMON OKSHTEYN --- LILY OBSESSION
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SHIMON OKSHTEYN --- LILY OBSESSION 〰️
ONLINE EXCLUSIVE
The Ukrainian - American artist Shimon Okshteyn is best known for his distinctive black & white works.
This show presents a series of monochrome works made between 2000 and his death in 2020 where his individual gesture in painting was taken to new levels of aggression and was manifested by assaults on his canvases with evocative slashes and holes.
Eleven paintings, three works on paper and one glass sculpture are all inspired by the lily flower, or lilium in Latin, a symbol of purity, innocence and rebirth.
Okshteyn's still lifes—objects whose life has been stilled—not only explore the boundary between ordinary objects and poetic objects—non-art and found art—but between aesthetics and erotics.
___Donald Kuspit, New York City.
