Grisha Bruskin Sculptures
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
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 Sculptures
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Russian Judaica "Vision" Abstract Kabbalah Figure Steel Sculpture Grisha Bruskin
By Grisha Bruskin
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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 Sculptures
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