IOWA CONTEMPORARY ART | 58 North Main Street, Fairfield, IA 52556 | 641-469-6252 | bill@icon-art.org
ICON is an IRS 501(c)(3) non-profit educational charity. All donations are tax-deductible.
Future ICON Exhibits:
IOWA CONTEMPORARY ART
Through August, 2021
ICON’s newly renovated Hudson Gallery re-opened on
March 6 with an exhibition of Mark Paul Petrick’s photographs
from India and Anonymous Shiva Linga Paintings. The exhibition
will feature fifteen prints from Petrick’s extended series an India
(1998-2002) and a selection of Anonymous Shiva Linga Paintings
from ICON’s Hudson Collection.
ICON Gallery Video Presentation: Waste Land by David T. Hanson
“Hanson’s Waste Land series is a stunning documentary of a century of organized state terrorism
against the North American land, its species, and its peoples.” Sociologist, Andrew Ross.
ICON has partnered with over 60 art venues throughout the country in July 2021 to recent art
statements bringing attention to mankind’s reckless abuse of our planet. The total event is titled:
Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss. ICON’s offering is a video installation by
photographer, David T. Hanson, based on his groundbreaking book of photographs titled
Waste Land. The 64 minute video will loop continuously during regular gallery hours, Tuesday
through Saturday, noon to 5:00, July 2 through August 7.
Hanson’s Waste Land series (created in 1986) is a master photographer’s meditation on the
country’s most dangerously polluted places.The July installation at ICON will feature a new video
that Hanson has created of the entire series, including his aerial photographs, maps and EPA site
descriptions of each hazardous waste site. Intended to be played in a continuous loop, the
Waste Land video becomes a haunting meditation on a ravaged landscape.
For this video, the composer Jarrad Powell created an original sound work. Sounds from three different sources—biophony (sounds of animals), geophony (sounds of weather and other natural elements), and anthrophony (sounds created by humans)—interpenetrate and are mediated by minimal electronic signal processing to yield a soundscape. Video production by Allen Cobb. Although Hanson’s Waste Land photographs were made in the mid-1980s, the work seems even more relevant today, given our growing concerns about energy production, environmental devastation, and climate change. For more about the video and David's work, click this link: https://www.extractionart.org/icon Schedule your viewing by calling or emailing Bill Teeple: iconbillteeple@gmail.com or call 641 919 6252. Masks are required.
Cheryl Jacobson
Sue Hettmansperger
ICON Gallery is now open. Also check us out on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ICON.gallery
The new ICON interactive website: https://now.icon-art.org
October, November, December 2021 - SYNERGY
3 Iowa City Artists:
Kathy Edwards Hayslett
Silver Bow Creek/Butte Area, Silver Bow/Deer Lodge Counties, Montana
More about David T. Hanson’s video: https://www.extractionart.org/icon
More about David T. Hanson’s video: https://www.extractionart.org/icon
