IOWA CONTEMPORARY ART | 58 North Main Street, Fairfield, IA 52556
641-919-6252 | bill@icon-art.org | iconbillteeple@gmail.com
GALLERY HOURS: Tuesday through Saturday, 12:00 to 5:00pm and by appointment.
ICON is an IRS 501(c)(3) non-profit educational charity. All donations are tax-deductible.
IOWA CONTEMPORARY ART
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NEXT 2024-25 ICON EXHIBITS:
Encore Quest for Beauty Slide Show Fundraiser (1800 Slides)
with Impressionistic Music Soundtrack
September 20th through October 3rd, 2024
1200 Portrait Slide Show Fundraiser with Classical Music Sound Track
October 4th through October 19th, 2024
Biennual Art Auction
November 1st through December 11th, 2024
Joanie McGinnis
February, March and April 2025
Judy Bales
May, June, July, 2025
Dan Hurlin: Motel
August, September, and October, 2025
Biennual Mini-Art Auction
November through December, 2025
COMING IN 2026…
Flea Market and Print Sale
1st Weekend of February, 2026
Mark Petrick
Robert Hoerlein
Madeline de Joly
Transformative Visions
This exhibition was partly inspired by the gallery text for an early exhibition of Hudson’s collection
of anonymous Shiva Linga paintings at Arcadia University:
“. . . Despite their expression of an unbroken, centuries-old tradition, [these paintings] seem both
timeless and utterly contemporary. They also possess a remarkable affinity with examples of
twentieth-century abstract art. The progeny of hand-written, illustrated religious treatises from
the seventeenth century, copied across many generations, these paintings are part of a distinct
visual lexicon that confounds assumed differences between East and West, the spiritual and the
aesthetic, the ancient and the modern.”
For most of its long history, art has been visionary, spiritual, mythical, and transformative. In this
spirit, Transformative Visions juxtaposes four anonymous Shiva Linga paintings in a grisaille
palette with six abstract black & white photographs from the history of modern art. The exhibition
includes two creative explorations of alternative photographic processes by the master photographer
Frederick Sommer, an experimental photogram by the influential photographer and educator
Henry Holmes Smith, an early Tantra-inspired photograph by David T. Hanson while he was
studying with Minor White, a photograph of a tattered Kali poster in Varanasi by Mark Paul
Petrick from his series an India, and a recent abstract “Suryagram” by Scott Morgan. We have
chosen to present just a few select works of art in order to encourage viewers to spend time
contemplating each of them in depth.
Two Special Slide Show events at ICON
Bill Teeple will be offering two slide shows from his “Quest for Beauty” art history
archives as fundraisers for ICON. The two multi-week shows will be will be accompanied
with musical soundtracks.
The first show will be a reprisal of the very popular “Art History” slide show that ran
for two weeks last March. There will be two Friday evening shows, Sept 20 & 27,
7:30 - 9:30 pm. It can also be seen during regular gallery hours through October 3. It
includes 1800 slides from all of art history, ancient to modern. The accompanying
music draws from the classical, impressionist and romantic periods and includes
works by Bach, Chopin, Beethoven, Debussy, Ravel, Satie and more.
The second all new slide show opening on First Friday, October 4th, 6:30 to 10:00, is
a selection of 1200 portraits ranging from first century AD Roman portraits to
modern, with a completely new soundtrack curated by Bill Teepe that includes early
music, classical, impressionist, romantic and traditional styles. It can also be
experienced Friday, October 11, 7:30 – 9:30 and during regular gallery hours through
October 19.
One is invited to enjoy each show as long as one wants and then return at any time
for more. One donation is all that’s asked. A minimum donation of $5 is requested,
but consider donating more.
ICON Gallery is located at 58 N. Main Street, Fairfield. Gallery hours are Tuesday
through Saturday, 12:00 to 5:00. For further information contact Bill, 641-919-6252,
iconbillteeple@gmail.com.
