Kolodzei Art Foundation

For thirty five years the Kolodzei Art Foundation encourages a more diverse arts world and advancing knowledge of contemporary and nonconformist art of Eurasia.

Grisha Bruskin (Гриша Брускин)

Grisha Bruskin (born 1945 in Moscow; lives and works in New York)

Painting titled Alefbet by Grisha Bruskin
Grisha Bruskin
Alefbet, 1984.
Oil on canvas, 73 x 65 cm (29 x 26 in)
Painting titled Four Spaces by Grisha Bruskin
Grisha Bruskin
Four Spaces, 1982.
Oil on canvas, 64 x 53 cm (25.5 x 21.25 in)
Exhibited: 100 Years of Russian Art, 1889-1989; Silent Scream from the Russian Underground.
Lithograph titled Ketab Mariri by Grisha Bruskin
Grisha Bruskin
Ketab Mariri, 1988.
Lithograph

Grisha Bruskin is an internationally recognized nonconformist artist. After studying at the Moscow Art School and graduating from the Art Department of the Moscow Textile Institute in 1968, his early career was marked by censorship; his first three exhibitions were closed by Soviet authorities due to his controversial juxtaposition of Jewish mysticism and Soviet-era symbols. Bruskin’s inventive use of Hasidic text and archetypal personas reached an international turning point in 1988 at Sotheby’s first Russian Avant-Garde auction in Moscow. His work is held in prestigious collections including MoMA, the Jewish Museum, NY, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the State Tretyakov Gallery.

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