The Paintings of Cynthia Polsky: Interior, Exterior and Scenic

Each entry is fully illustrated in colour, either on one page or as a double spread. An illuminating essay discussed the artist's own observations to her works which are generally conceived as landscapes 'in which the observer can locate himself'.

Karen Wilkin examines the complexities of Polsky's paintings which are 'lush, seductive, reticent,explosive, slow, tender, aggressive, gorgeous, austere'. These contradictions reveal the breadth of moods, particularly through the play of shifting, elusively defined colour masses.

Karen Wilkin (author) is a New York-based independent curator and critic specializing in 20th century modernism.

John Yau is an art critic, essayist, poet, and prose writer.Both a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters and a Guggenhiem Fellow in Poetry, he currently teaches art criticism at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, and is working on a book on Jasper John