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...
Category
1990s Contemporary Grisha Bruskin Art
Materials
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...
Category
1980s Modern Grisha Bruskin Art
Materials
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...
Category
1990s Surrealist Grisha Bruskin Art
Materials
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...
Category
1990s Contemporary Grisha Bruskin Art
Materials
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...
Category
1990s Contemporary Grisha Bruskin Art
Materials
Steel
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
Category
1990s Grisha Bruskin Art
Materials
Screen
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
Category
1990s Grisha Bruskin Art
Materials
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
Category
1990s Grisha Bruskin Art
Materials
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
Category
1990s Grisha Bruskin Art
Materials
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)
Category
1990s Grisha Bruskin Art
Materials
Screen
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