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Meyerovich Gallery
January 6 - February 29, 2016Info
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http://www.meyerovich.com
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(415) 421-7171
Grisha Bruskin, Moonlight (detail), 2001-2003, painted bronze, 47x16x14 in; ed. 3
Grisha Bruskin (b. 1945), internationally acclaimed contemporary artist is exhibiting this winter at Meyerovich Gallery, San Francisco. Grisha Bruskin is widely recognized for an oeuvre that deeply engages philosophy, history, and religion. The exhibition Grisha Bruskin: Paintings and Sculpture features a group of oil paintings, works on paper, bronze sculptures, colorful flat sculptures, and hand painted porcelain plates. These artworks explore Bruskin’s own world of images and meanings, united by themes from mythological, Kabbalistic and folklore traditions. Bruskin’s art is largely based on the use of symbols of one kind or another. In the same way that the letters of the alphabet are symbols and when put together form words, in Bruskin’s paintings he arranges figures which have symbolic meaning to form a visual lexicon. The artist states, “To me each personage has a specific meaning. All of them make up a kind of text. Each personage is a letter in my own alphabet.”