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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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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.
Table Sculpture
Cubism to Curvism
Curvism: Art and Philosophy
We live in boxes, work in cubicles; we are caged in, rarely getting out to touch the earth and be surrounded by the sky. When we walk, it’s across a paved parking lot. Big city life, suburbia, small-town living. Modern life. How did this happen?
Paintings 1990-1995
Early Curvism
Drawings 1985-1990
Masks
Black and White Prints
Early Photographs
