“He takes the everyday apple on a conceptual voyage through the various phases of art history…The apple was transformed into an abstraction and the fruit became planet-like spheres whirling into a galaxy of Mr. Sunshine’s making.”

The Country Magazine 2007

       Jamie Ferris

“In this exhibition entitled “Worlds”, the artist shifts direction and mirrors his emotional reactions to the current tragic, terrifying and chaotic state of today’s world, and his private ruminations on mortality.”

Spun Out of the Gravities 2006

       Koan Jeff Baysa

“There is in fact, an air of dramatic harmony and heroic achievement to the sculpture. An anxious mating has been transformed into an intimate embrace. Breast-like apple and phallic lighting elegantly reconcile while keeping their autonomy… a classical example of dynamic equilibrium.”

Apple on the Edge 2002

      Donald Kuspit

“Norman Sunshine repaints the traditional still-life image of that modern master of the genre, Paul Cezanne combined with a measure of Clyfford Still and Barnett Newman. His means to this end are provocative, and illuminating… It is the deeply expressive joy Sunshine brings to each canvas – his joy in the still-life tradition and that he, a post modern artist, has found a way to make it new.”

Art in America 2001

      Gerrit Henry

“It is musical painting, like the best abstract painting, but also oddly realistic. Sunshine places us on the boarder between representation and abstraction and does not tell us which way to turn… Nothing, then, is static in his still-life paintings. They are in perpetual, conceptual, as well as perceptual process… a delicious place to be.”

The Living Still Life 2000

       Donald Kuspit