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Grisha Bruskin Art

Russian, b. 1945
Born in 1945, the Russian artist Grisha Bruskin graduated from the Art Department at the Moscow Textile Institute in 1968. As a member of the Soviet Artists' Union, he staged a number of controversial exhibitions, most of which were closed down by the Soviet authorities. Bruskin immigrated to his current home, New York City, in 1989. Refusing to adhere to the government-sanctioned style of Socialist Realism, Bruskin became a major figure in the Soviet Non-Conformist Art movement, dedicating himself to the research and presentation of his Jewish heritage and its associated mythologies, mysticism, and sacred texts. Bruskin's work juxtaposes this powerful visual vocabulary of Judaic imagery and text with symbolic remnants of the now dissolved Soviet Union. In Alefbet (1984) and Alefbet-Lexicon (1987), his most reknown painting series, Bruskin combines Hasidic text, figures in religious uniform and a slew of Jewish mystical symbols to produce an image system. Bruskin's prints continue this exploration of the conflict between religious and political mythology, investigating the point of intersection between two prescribed notions of social identity as manifested through tradition, image and text. A prolific writer as well as visual artist, Bruskin's work is included in many permanent public collections, such as The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Jewish Museum, New York, NY; Kunsthalle Emden, Germany; State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia; State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, and Museo Galeria de Arte, Caracas, Venezuela.
(Biography provided by Marlborough New York)
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Artist: Grisha Bruskin
Study 8 Russian protest Unique signed gouache Marlborough Gallery w/label Framed
By Grisha Bruskin
Located in New York, NY
Grisha Bruskin Study 8, 1990 Ink and Gouache on paper Hand signed and inscribed by the artist on the front Original vintage frame with Marlborough Gallery label included This work is...
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1990s Contemporary Grisha Bruskin Art

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Ink, Gouache

Note D
By Grisha Bruskin
Located in New York, NY
Grisha Bruskin Note D, 1991 Color silkscreen on Somerset paper 34 × 27 inches Edition 74/75 Boldly signed and numbered on front in graphite pencil. Published by Marlborough Graphics Unframed From Russian-American Jewish artist Grisha Bruskin's "Notes" series. In Russia, Bruskin had been accused of creating “subversive” Soviet art and “Jewish propaganda". But he's said, “We have no prejudice here. Even Russians can feel something for art. Some Russians understand the Jewish paintings and some stupid Jewish people do not. It depends upon the person.” Below is an excerpt from a 1988 New York Times profile on Bruskin: “It is my intention to create two lines of mythology based on the mentality of socialism and Judaism,” he solemnly declares, while acknowledging the “difficulty of looking at Soviet art with Western criteria.” Bruskin’s paintings of Jewish characters are equally perplexing to some Soviets, though their meaning is not as evident because he has invented his own symbols. “In Egyptian or Assyrian art, there were symbolic equivalents of beliefs, but not in Judaism,” he says. “I was interested in creating them not at a secular level but at an artistic level.” In his Jewish-themed works, gnome-like characters may appear upside-down, carrying an angel, a menorah or a strange beast. Snippets of Hebrew text...
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1980s Modern Grisha Bruskin Art

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Screen

Adam Kadmon ("Vision")
By Grisha Bruskin
Located in New York, NY
Grisha Bruskin Adam Kadmon (dedicated to art historian and collector Jacob Baal Teshuva), 1992 Steel (Signed, Dated & Dedicated) 6 × 6 × 3 inches Edition AP Hand-signed by artist, In...
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1990s Surrealist Grisha Bruskin Art

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Steel

Collection of 20 signed Lt. Ed. silkscreens by top Russian artists in red box
By Grisha Bruskin
Located in New York, NY
AUFBRUCH AUS MOSKAU MOCKBA - PORTFOLIO OF TWENTY (20) ORIGINAL LIMITED EDITION SIGNED GRAPHICS, 1990 20 Limited edition, hand signed and numbered Screenprints, unframed in original Portfolio case 22 4/5 × 29 9/10 inches (each work) Edition of 100 Each print is hand signed and numbered 64 from the edition of 100 This is the complete Portfolio with 20 original limited edition, hand signed and numbered from the limited edition of only 100 - graphics by 20 Russian artists, including screen printing and collotypes. This portfolio was the mastermind of legendary printer and publisher Michael Domberger, who crisscrossed the globe from Rome, Sydney, Amsterdam, New York, Cologne and Moscow to realize this ambitious project - technically and artistically. Domberger writes that to his great surprise and delight -all of the artists invited agreed to participate. The 20 Russian artists invited to contribute works to this portfolio are: Jurij Albert, Grisha Bruskin, Erik Bulatov, Andrey Filippov, Sven Gundlach, Vladimir Yankilevsky, Ilya Kabakov, Igor Kopystyansky, Svetlana Kopystyanskaya, Georgiy Litvsky, Sergei Mironenko, Vladimir Mironenko, Boris Orlov, Dmitry Prigov, Andrei Roiter, Jurij Sobolev, Ivan Chujkov, Sergei Wolkov, Wadim Zakharov and Constantine Zwesdotschotov. Each print is housed in the original elegant Linen Portfolio Box...
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1990s Contemporary Grisha Bruskin Art

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Screen, Linen, Mixed Media, Pencil

Russian Judaica "Vision" Abstract Kabbalah Figure Steel Sculpture Grisha Bruskin
By Grisha Bruskin
Located in Surfside, FL
Grisha Bruskin (Russian, b. 1945) Vision, 1992 steel Hand signed and inscribed Grisha Bruskin in Cyrillic numbered 117/300 Genre: Contemporary Subject: Religious Medium: Steel Gri...
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1990s Contemporary Grisha Bruskin Art

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Steel

Note C
By Grisha Bruskin
Located in New York, NY
Image: 28 1/2 x 22 in. (72.4 x 55.9 cm) Sheet: 34 x 27 in. (86.4 x 68.6 cm) From set of four colour silkscreens (Note A, B, C, and D) on Somerset paper, with full margins Edition of 75
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1990s Grisha Bruskin Art

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Screen

Note B
By Grisha Bruskin
Located in New York, NY
Image: 28 1/2 x 22 in. (72.4 x 55.9 cm) Sheet: 34 x 27 in. (86.4 x 68.6 cm) From set of four colour silkscreens (Note A, B, C, and D) on Somerset paper, with full margins Edition of 75
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1990s Grisha Bruskin Art

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Screen

Note D
By Grisha Bruskin
Located in New York, NY
Image: 28 1/2 x 22 in. (72.4 x 55.9 cm) Sheet: 34 x 27 in. (86.4 x 68.6 cm) From set of four colour silkscreens (Note A, B, C, and D) on Somerset paper, with full margins Edition of 75
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1990s Grisha Bruskin Art

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Screen

Note A
By Grisha Bruskin
Located in New York, NY
Image: 28 1/2 x 22 in. (72.4 x 55.9 cm) Sheet: 34 x 27 in. (86.4 x 68.6 cm) From set of four colour silkscreens (Note A, B, C, and D) on Somerset paper, with full margins Edition of 75
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1990s Grisha Bruskin Art

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Screen

Notes (Note A, B, C, D)
By Grisha Bruskin
Located in New York, NY
Set of four colour silkscreens (Note A, B, C, and D) on Somerset paper, with full margins All edition of 75 Image: 28 1/2 x 22 in. (72.4 x 55.9 cm) Sheet: 34 x 27 in. (86.4 x 68.6 cm)
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1990s Grisha Bruskin Art

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Screen

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