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The Madeline de Joly exhibition scheduled to open May 1st has been postponed. To take its place,
Bill Teeple has put together a wide range of works in a show titled Selections. It is a diverse selection of
pieces from a variety of artists, living and dead, from Fairfield and beyond. Works are from the ICON
permanent collection and from artists and collectors. The show runs through July 18th, 2026.
“I’m very much looking forward to this show,” say Teeple. “The show is about select pieces. You will
recognize some of the work, but many pieces are by unknown artists or not representative of the widely
known works of that artist” It was fun to mix it up.”
The diversity in this show celebrates the unique places that creative intelligence explores when given the
freedom of expression that the world of art allows. The emphasis is on artist as a channel (or filter)
through which the one creative intelligence that pervades the universe speaks. The product is a diversity
of expressive acts that pursue greater and greater perfection of that expression.
Teeple says it’s a new way of looking at art shows. With emphasis on the unity of all artists - artists as
brothers and sisters celebrating diversity rather than individual egos competing to be different.
ICON Gallery is located at 58 N. Main Street, Fairfield. Gallery hours are noon to 5:00, Tuesday through
Saturday. For more information iconbillteeple@gmail.com, 641-919-6252.
A new show opens in the Hudson Gallery at ICON on First Friday, April 4th, 6:30 to
10:00 pm. A selection of 13 paintings from the ICON Collection of Shiva Linga paintings
will be on display. All of these works were made by tantrika families in the city of Udaiper
in Rajasthan, India. The exhibition will be on view through May, 2026.
The French poet Franck André Jamme first encountered South Asian Tantra paintings in
1970 in an art gallery in Paris. Jamme was fascinated by these paintings that were so close
to Western modern art, from Kazimir Malevich and Paul Klee to Agnes Martin and
Daniel Buren, and many others. During the subsequent years, Jamme discovered books
on Tantra art and he decided to try to find the artists who were creating these works.
Following several unsuccessful trips to India, including a horrific bus accident and three
years of recovery, he returned in 1989, beginning his search in the city of Udaïpur. There
he consulted a friend’s astrologer and soothsayer, who shed light on his mission and put
him in touch with two families of tantrika artists that were creating Tantra paintings. Over
the next few years, Jamme was introduced to a number of different tantrika families
throughout the state of Rajasthan and was given permission to bring some of their works
to Europe and America. Eventually he collaborated with Hudson, founder of the New York
gallery, Feature Inc., to assemble the collection of Shiva Linga paintings that now form
The Hudson Collection at ICON.
ICON Gallery is located at 58 N. Main Street, Fairfield. Gallery hours are noon to
5:00, Tuesday through Saturday. For more information iconbillteeple@gmail.com,
641-919-6252.
Tantra Art from Udaipur in ICON Hudson Gallery
NEXT 2026 ICON EXHIBITS:
Gillian Brown Photography, New Works
August 4 through October 17, 2026
Large Scale Photos
May 1through July 18, 2026
SELECTIONS
We are postponing the Madeline de Joly memorial exhibition. Madeline’s daughter, Yvonne Simon,
is not able to travel from Slovenia at this time. Bill Teeple and Yvonne were planning to curate a show
this May to honor her mother’s contribution to the world of art.
To take its place, we are putting together an exhibition to open on May 1 entitled Selections which
will be a diverse selection of pieces from local and regional artists, some globally famous artists, the
ICON permanent collection, and from local collectors. “I’m very much looking forward to this show”
---- Bill
Selections Opens at ICON May 1st
