Michael Barnard at ICON
“When I first met Michael Barnard a few years ago, I was interested in his
professional filmmaking. At that time I discovered that he, also, had a large body
of visual art that he had been making all his life. I felt it was important to put a show
together that gave a glimpse of the numerous expressions by this creative soul.” —
Bill Teeple, ICON Director
These works of Michael W. Barnard, ranging from his teenage years in the mid-20th
Century to the present beginning of the third decade of the 21st Century, are
artifacts of his own journey. The works displayed are examples of spiritual/aesthetic
explorations using a wide variety of media and technique. The styles presented are
varied and inconsistent, yet the driving focus and intention has always been the
same: to evoke and embody the enlightened soul and radiate that light through
these sacred space experiences. It is a sharing of the somatic Infinite Bliss from
which time and space emerge. It is a sharing and celebration of pure Creation.
March, 2020
April, May, 2020
Synergy
3 Iowa City Artists:
Kathy Edwards Hayslett Sue Hettmansperger Cheryl Jacobson
Mid-June, 2020
One week special event
Structure and Flow:
Art Fashion
by Judy Bales
July, August, 2020
Days Filled with Luster:
Early Reliefs and Sculptures,
1975–1985
Michael Cain
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IOWA CONTEMPORARY ART
ICON’s newly renovated Hudson Gallery will reopen on
March 6 with an exhibition of Mark Paul Petrick’s photographs
from India and Anonymous Shiva Linga Paintings. The exhibition
will feature fifteen prints from Petrick’s extended series an India
(1998-2002) and a selection of Anonymous Shiva Linga Paintings
from ICON’s Hudson Collection.
Future ICON Exhibits:
Structure and Flow: Art Fashion by Judy Bales
This exhibition will present avant garde fashion works by Judy Bales, displayed as sculptural objects
in the gallery. Bales’ considers her work to be a hybrid, combining fiber, sculpture and fashion in
ways that blend and blur the edges of all three. In her fashion works she incorporates the industrial
materials she favors for her sculptural objects, creating unusual and dramatic fashion statements.
While her work is frequently presented in runway venues, involving dynamic movement and human
interaction, this exhibition will display the work as sculptural objects.
A special event featuring live models will be presented during the exhibition. Ms. Bales will also
present a public lecture giving insight into her process and the greater world of fashion as art.
