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Grisha Bruskin Figurative Prints

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
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 Figurative Prints

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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 Figurative Prints

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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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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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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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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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