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Long time MIU art professor, Gillian Brown, will show recent large-scale photographs at
ICON Gallery August 7
th
through October 17
th
.The opening will be on First Friday Art
Walk, August 7, 6:30 to 10:00pm.
ICON Director, Bill Teeple describes these photographs as “intimate domestic scenes
about light. There is an intimacy about them even though they are large scale.”
“My photographic images are records of light falling across interior surfaces in our east
facing house after I had become enchanted by the beauty of these ever-changing light
patterns,” says Brown. “The east orientation brought to my attention just how this rather
small house was becoming my private observatory as the sunrise moved along the
eastern horizon. As the light fell into the house, it would slowly change from floor to
bookcases to stairs.” Brown adds,
“These particular large prints have a striking beauty which comes from my collaborating
with Inga Frick.” Gillian and Inga, who currently resides in California, have collaborated on
projects for decades.
ICON Gallery is located at 58 N. Main Street, Fairfield. Regular hours are Tuesday
through Saturday, noon to 5:00.
For further information contact Bill, 641-919-6252, iconbillteeple@gmail.com.
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 7 through October 17, 2026
Large Scale Photos
November through December
ICON Biennial Art Auction
&
ICON Flood Sale
Gillian Brown Photographs Opens at ICON August 7th
