(EMAILWIRE.COM, September 08, 2010 ) KENT, CONNECTICUT – Multi-talented American artist Norman Sunshine will exhibit recent, cutting-edge landscape paintings and highly expressive pastels of horses at The Morrison Gallery September 25 through October 24.
In addition to the current work, gallery owner William Morrison has selected a number of earlier pieces from SunshineÂ’s years in Los Angeles.
“The range of work and exploration of media will add up to a mini retrospective,” said Mr. Morrison. The show will take the viewer on a surprising journey: one that will reflect emotional experiences and and surroundings that affected the artist’s 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 70’s, to emotionally charged and more abstract paintings, sculpture and steel wall reliefs of the 80’s, and finally, when Sunshine decided to move to the east and settle permanently in Washington, Connecticut, how the sights, colors and impressions, affected and radically changed his work.
Sunshine’s critically acclaimed; “postmodern” still-life apple paintings and sculptures of the 1990s were shown frequently in New York and in his last exhibit at the Morrison Gallery. As with his still-life paintings, the newer landscape paintings also toss convention on its ear, lifting the wall between abstraction and representation. The exhibit will take the viewer on a surprising journey, of place, inspiration, daring and transformation. Sunshine’s work is in national museums and in some of the most important private and corporate collections in the country.
The show begins with an opening reception on Saturday, September 25, 5-7pm.
Norman Sunshine was born in Los Angeles, attended the University of Southern California and received a BFA from New York University. He then studied at the Art Center School in Los Angeles with the pioneer minimalist Lorser Feitelson, and independently with William Brice. He had a successful career as an illustrator, both in Los Angeles and New York, where and won numerous awards for his commercial work.
But “serious” painting became his passion and his first body of work, at the Adam Gallery in New York, received excellent reviews and sold out. With such encouragement his passion became his full time endeavor, resulting in numerous shows in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, plus major galleries throughout the United States and at international art exhibitions. His paintings and sculpture are in major private and public collections as well as: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Arts and Sciences in Columbia, NC, and the Palm Springs Museum of Art.
For further information call The Morrison Gallery at 860.927.4501 or email: info@themorrisongallery.com.
