Polina Barskaya is an artist who was born in1984 in the Ukraine who lives and works in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. She studied at the Pratt Institute and Hunter College. Polina has exhibited nationally. Her work has recently been included in shows at Honey Ramka, Monya Rowe Gallery, Adam Baumgold Gallery and John Davis Gallery in Hudson. Brian visited Polina at her Brighton Beach home studio and they talked about her youth always on the move, family, scale in painting, her love/hate relationship to New York and much more.