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
Calendar Page
Mini Art Auction Fundraiser for ICON Opens on November ArtWalk
Every other year ICON has a fundraiser art auction of “mini art”, art no bigger than 5x7”, with $15 as the
minimum bid for all art. The auction opens in the gallery on Friday, November 7th, 6:30 to 10:00pm.
Art is donated by local artists. Art will continue to be added as it comes in throughout the exhibition period.
All proceeds go to ICON operating expenses. The art will be on view in the gallery for six weeks, with the final
bidding day being December 17th. Bidding will be online. The art will be displayed in the gallery and can also
be viewed on the auction site. Bring your phone to the gallery and bid on the spot, or bid from home.
Artists participating includes John Preston, Danielle Shier, Bill Teeple, Greg Thatcher, Joanie McGinnis,
Wendy Stegal, Care Connet, Cris Soth, Allen Cobb, Irene Murphy, Liz Howard, Susan Marcus, Chris Cambridge,
Rosemary Lucente, Cindy Ballou, Dawn McKay, Margaret Lindquist, Gillian Brown, Geoffrey Baker,
Charlotte Cain, Betsy Dockhorn, Mike Tompkins, Chad Starling, Hilary Gleeson, Jo Bartruff and more.
ICON Gallery is located at 51 N. Main St., Fairfield. Hours are Tuesday Through Saturday, noon to 5:00.
For more information: 641-919-6252, iconbillteeple@gmail,com
A new show opens in the Hudson Gallery at ICON on First Friday, April 4th, 6:30 to
10:00 pm. A selection of 13 paintings from the ICON Collection of Shiva Linga paintings
will be on display. All of these works were made by tantrika families in the city of Udaiper
in Rajasthan, India. The exhibition will be on view through March, 2026.
The French poet Franck André Jamme first encountered South Asian Tantra paintings in
1970 in an art gallery in Paris. Jamme was fascinated by these paintings that were so close
to Western modern art, from Kazimir Malevich and Paul Klee to Agnes Martin and
Daniel Buren, and many others. During the subsequent years, Jamme discovered books
on Tantra art and he decided to try to find the artists who were creating these works.
Following several unsuccessful trips to India, including a horrific bus accident and three
years of recovery, he returned in 1989, beginning his search in the city of Udaïpur. There
he consulted a friend’s astrologer and soothsayer, who shed light on his mission and put
him in touch with two families of tantrika artists that were creating Tantra paintings. Over
the next few years, Jamme was introduced to a number of different tantrika families
throughout the state of Rajasthan and was given permission to bring some of their works
to Europe and America. Eventually he collaborated with Hudson, founder of the New York
gallery, Feature Inc., to assemble the collection of Shiva Linga paintings that now form
The Hudson Collection at ICON.
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.
Tantra Art from Udaipur in ICON Hudson Gallery
NEXT 2025-26 ICON EXHIBITS:
Biennial Mini-Art Auction
November 7th, at noon through December 17th, 8:00pm, 2025
Mini Art Auction
Flea Market and Print Sale
1st Weekend of December, 2025
COMING IN 2026…
Mike Rutherford & Bill Teeple
Gillian Brown
Mark Petrick
Madeline de Joly Retrospective
