Thursday, May 7 at 5:00p | MUST RSVP for admission link
Email: community@roxburyartsgroup.org for reservations
To watch the studio tour follow this link.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/l45hxdxklcwjd59/New%20Project.mp4?dl=0&fbclid=IwAR2EO3TWDKtXza_pVdY0BcFSE61HbvFJByPuOOg4hEd1AfA5HBtWrB_AN2U
Join Lisbeth Firmin on a tour of her Catskill Mountain studio on May 7 at 5:00p. Beth will be walking around the space discussing everything from her artwork, her inspirations and her space… and whatever else the conversation may provoke. Participants will be able to interact with Beth and the other virtual attendees. Space is limited. Please contact Sam at community@roxburyartsgroup.org to reserve your space. You will then receive instructions for access to the zoom studio tour.
Lisbeth Firmin is a contemporary American realist whose paintings and monotypes explore the relationship between people and their urban environment, while simultaneously capturing the energy and light of a specific moment in time. Her urban landscapes, following in the tradition of earlier realists such as John Sloan, George Bellows, and Edward Hopper, depict a feeling of human solitude, of people headed somewhere undisclosed. She is not interested in producing a literal translation of her subject matter, but aims instead to ride the line between abstraction and realism, letting the viewer provide the final interpretation.
Firmin has been painting since childhood, and studied independently with printmaker Seong Moy, and painters Philip Malicoat, Victor Candell, and Leo Manso in Provincetown in the early 70’s. Her art has expanded from early depictions of lonely highways done from solitary road trips, to painting the neighborhoods and street scenes surrounding her downtown New York City apartment, where she lived for more than 25 years. Firmin’s work evolved further after a move to upstate New York in 2000, as the figure, instead of the landscape, gradually became the focal point of her paintings. For the last four decades her work has been in hundreds of solo and group shows in this country and abroad.
Firmin has been the recipient of many grants and fellowships, including a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for Printmaking (Lily Auchincloss Fellow), a Community Arts Funding Grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, and full fellowships to the MacDowell Colony, National Seashore Cape Cod Dune Shack Residency, Vermont Studio School, and Saltonstall Arts Colony.
Recent exhibitions include “Lisbeth Firmin, Working the Light,” a solo show of monoprints at the Roxbury Arts Group, Roxbury, NY (2015), “Reflections,” a solo show featuring 12 new paintings at the Rice-Polak Gallery in Provincetown, MA ( 2014); “Moments in Time,” a solo retrospective at the Martin-Mullen Fine Arts Gallery at SUNY Oneonta (2013); and “Coming Home,” a solo show at the Tides Institute and Museum of Art, in Eastport, ME (2013). Several monoprints were included in the 2013 “63rd Exhibition of Central New York Artists” at the Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, NY (where her work is now in the permanent collection), and in the “2013 Artists of the Mohawk/Hudson Region Exhibition,” Hyde Collection, Glenns Falls, NY. Her work appeared in the Hofstra University’s 50th Anniversary Exhibition, “The Lyon, The Which, and the Warhol.” Firmin was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Taft School in Watertown, CT in 2011. An upcoming show at the Rice-Polak Gallery, “Chiaroscuro,” is scheduled for summer, 2016.
Firmin’s paintings and prints are in several public collections including the New York Historical Society, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA, Fleming Museum, Burlington, VT, Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, NY, The Tides Institute & Museum of Art, Eastport, ME, University of Texas, Cape Cod Museum, and Hofstra University. Her work is part of the corporate collections of Pfizer, Meditech Corporation, Thomson Reuters, Bankers Trust, Odyssey, Fidelity Investments, Cablevision, and Zurich Insurance. Private collectors include Philip Glass, M. Night Shayamalan, Roz Chast, Robert Rothchild, Jack Beal and Sondra Freckelton, and Tom Morgan and Erna Mc Reynolds.
Her work has been written about in The New York Times, Provincetown Arts, The Boston Globe, Constellation 617, Arts Magazine, American Art Collector, and numerous other publications.
Firmin teaches painting/printmaking at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Winston Salem, NC, the Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Program, NYC, and at the Truro Center for the Arts, Castle Hill, Cape Cod, MA.