March 31, 2008

Milwaukee River Series
at RiverEdge Nature Center

Paintings from Firkins' landscape series tracing the Milwaukee River will be on view at the Riveredge Nature Center in Newburg, WI during the month of May. The series was done entirely on location between 1998 and 2002 and follows the river from its various headwaters east of Lake Winnebago to its confluence with Lake Michigan in the city of Milwaukee. Several of the paintings were done within a mile of the Nature Center where the river winds its way over a mill and through picturesque Newburg.

Reception with the artist:
Sunday, May 11, 2008 • 2pm
Riveredge Nature Center
4458 West Hawthorne, Newburg, WI
800-287-8098
www.riveredge.us

Stations of the cross, 2008

Firkins returned to the studio during the 2008 Christian Holy Week to give his interpretation of the Fourteen Stations of the Cross, a traditional subject for artists for 2000 years. Consisting of fourteen 24 x 36 abstract verticals, the oils are intense reimaginings of the familiar subject using a very personal and contemporary visual language.