Original Article on New York Social Diary

Two weeks ago (were a little late on this) artist, Norman Sunshine launched an exhibition his most recent landscape paintings and his highly expressive horse pastels at the Morrison Gallery in Kent, Connecticut. In addition to the current work, gallerist Bill Morrison selected a number of earlier pieces from Sunshines years in Los Angeles where he was born and grew up. The range of work and exploration of media add up to a mini-retrospective. The show takes the viewer on a surprising journey reflecting emotional experiences and surroundings that affected the artists outlook on life as well as his art and transformed them into the realm of color, form and space. From hard-edge, cool, realistic figurative paintings of alienation of the 70s, ...(read more)