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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.
On the first Friday of June a new exhibit opens in the Hudson Gallery at ICON,
Paintings From Two Worlds. The show pairs work by Robert Horlein with selected
Shiva Linga Paintings from the ICON Collection. ICON hours on First Friday ArtWalk
are 6:30 to 10:00pm..
“Because Robert has used this oval shape in his paintings for decades, Hudson
Gallery curator, David Hanson, and I sensed a kinship between the two bodies of
work.” Says ICON Director, Bill Teeple. “Robert’s paintings are from a Western art
tradition, particularly from 20th century expressionism and formal abstraction. The
Tantric paintings, made as objects of worship and meditation, were not created as
art objects at all. But when introduced to the Western art world, the work has been
extensively featured in storied venues and written about over the last 35 years.”
In this exhibit, titled Paintings From Two Worlds, the works are being shown together
to see and feel the resonance and dissidence between these vastly different
systems of thought, feeling, and object making. They are coming from two separate
worlds, with different motivations and different purposes.
This collection was originally assembled by French poet Franck Andre Jamme who
spent decades in India obtaining access to this work, finally getting permission to
collect it and share it with the Western art world. This collection was shown at the
Pompidou Center in Paris in 1989. It was first shown in the United States in 2007 at
Feature Inc., a gallery in New York City, and later at The Drawing Center in New
York. In 2013 these works were shown at the 55th Venice Biennale, as part of the
revolutionary show “The Encyclopedic Palace” curated by Massimiliano Gioni.
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.
Hudson Gallery at ICON - Robert Horlein and Shiva Linga Paintings
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
