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The horizon, the hills and valleys, the flow of water, the shape of rocks, plants and animals, and the human figure are composed of curves. Nature is curved with few exceptions. The straight lined, angular, man-made world sharply contrasts with the natural world.
Curvism seeks to move out of the square, rectangular, cubed world and into the sphere of the curved line, the circle and the ellipse.
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Sundance Snowman 2020
Firkins is an artist who works in “curvism,” a concept he created to celebrate the roundness and fluidity of nature. It led him to writing a movie script called “The Filmmakers.” The movie starts as science fiction then turns into a documentary about the consequences of climate change and possible solutions.
Star Tribune 2007
Review by Mary Abbe in the Minneapolis StarTribune, March 1, 2007. Wisconsin artist Steve Firkins continues his antic musings on art and life
Star Tribune 1998
This is Firkins' first major exhibition and it is appropriately ambitious. Spanning about 20 years, it includes paintings, sculpture, photographs and even birch-bark masks, all designed to explicate the artist's ideas about the failings of late 20th-century life and art.
Minnesota Daily 1998
But contrary to first impressions, Firkins’ art is both sincere and mischievous, a combination I find missing in other, more heavy-handed conceptualist stuff.