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Next 2022 ICON Exhibits:
ICON closed for January
Greg Thatcher, Bill Teeple, John Preston
February 4 to April 23, 2022
David Kupferman
May 6 to July 23, 2022
20th Century Japanese Prints
August 5 to October 22, 2022
IOWA CONTEMPORARY ART
ICON is closed for the month of January.
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New Exhibit in the Hudson Collection Gallery at ICON
The Hudson Collection Gallery on the mezzanine at ICON has an all new exhibition,
opening on First Friday in Fairfield, October 1. The gallery was created to be the
permanent home for the prestigious Hudson Collection of Shiva Linga paintings
donated to ICON in 2018. The exhibition was organized by David T. Hanson.
This exhibition brings together a selection of anonymous Shiva Linga paintings from
ICON’s Hudson Collection, five anonymous Tantra paintings from the collection of
David T. Hanson, and a group of Tantra-inspired paintings by Charlotte Cain. The
Shiva Linga paintings shown here reproduce the selection and sequence of images
chosen by Hudson and Feature Inc. to represent the entire collection of 71
anonymous Shiva Linga paintings on the gallery’s website.
The exhibition is dedicated to the late Frank Andre Jamme (1947 - 2020), who is
responsible for introducing this art to the west. Frank Andre Jamme was a French
poet, artist, and translator. Jamme published numerous poems and fragments, as
well as multiple limited-edition books. A specialist of Indian Tantric, Brut, and Tribal
art, he was also praised for his work as an international curator. Working with
Hudson and Feature Inc., Jamme assembled the series of Anonymous Shiva Linga
Paintings in he Hudson Collection. We are deeply indebted to Frank Andre Jamme.
“We’ve paired the Tantric art with paintings by Charlotte Cain,” says ICON Director
Bill Teeple. “Charlotte drew inspiration from Tantric painting and Indian miniature
painting. She was highly trained in the art of the west having graduated from the
Rhode Island School of Design. She went on to study miniature painting in India with
one of the great masters of that art form, Bannu Sharma. She was a bridge between
cultures.”
