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Our presentation at Art on Paper New York 2023 will highlight ten large scale works on paper by Eugenio Cuttica whose solo exhibition opened at the Castello Brown museum in Portofino, Italy on August 16th. As a digital component to our booth, we are pleased to present five works on paper by Shimon Okshteyn to explore online and view by appointment at our annex in Southampton, NY.

IN-PERSON: BOOTH B-19

Black & White Gallery is pleased to feature Color Field Studies, a solo presentation of Eugenio Cuttica, one of the great representatives of Argentine contemporary art, currently living and working in New York and showing this body of work for the first time there.

Eugenio Cuttica (b.1957 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) has been exhibiting internationally for more than 40 years in galleries, museums and cultural centers in Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, Rio de Janeiro, Bogotá, Amsterdam, New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Indianapolis, and Shanghai, to name a few. From early in life he knew that shape, color and light were the vessels which would take people to a deep journey into the inner worlds of their spirit. He believes that every artwork should be at least the size of a door for the viewer to be able to pass through and be immersed by the experience. With his large dimensional works, he invites everyone to reconnect with the awareness of what is presented upon them, based on a strong imprint of synchronicity and connection to what he calls the infinite frequency of no time dimension.

“They are paintings that arise from emotions. I create an accident on purpose to avoid virtuosity, because I believe that skill is not art, but rather being alert to what is happening. The accident puts us in the present, because it has to be resolved. When things get too easy, they become frivolous art,” Cuttica notes.

ONLINE

by appointment at the gallery's annex in Southampton, NY.

Black & White Project Space's online presentation spotlights five works on paper by Shimon Okshteyn (1951-2020, American, b. Ukraine). It brings together works of various sizes tracing the evolution of Okshteyn's’ artistic approach between the1980s and 2000s. 

"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. 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