GRISHA BRUSKIN | ANGEL WITH EYES

Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York

A principal focus of Bruskin's highly personal work is his exploration of Judaism and esotericism as alternative belief systems to the cold, hard rationalism of Soviet communism. In his quest for self-identity beyond the prescribed Soviet parameters he uses Kabbalistic images and his visual lexicon features a whole host of angels and demons.

This angel most closely resembles the hebrew prophet Ezekiel's vision of cherubim, with their wings 'completely full of eyes' and 'under their wings was what looked like human hands'.