CURRENT
Location
58 N. Main Street ("On the Square")
Fairfield, IA 52556
Gallery Hours
Noon – 4:00, Tuesday – Friday, Saturday 1:00 -- 4:00
& by appointment. 641.469.6252 or bill@icon-art.org
1st Friday Artwalk, August 2, 2013
Mark Paul Petrick hosts Pecha Kucha at ICON
August 3 – August 10, 2013
Walter Day
Gaming Trading Card Exposition
September–October, 2013
Charlotte Cain and Catherine Meyers
November, December 2013, & January, 2014
Michael Peter Cain
EVENTS
CALENDAR
6:30 – 10:00PM
Friday, May 3, 2013
Better Half
Paintings by Davenport Artist
Leslie Bell.
No ICON Thursday May 9th
IICON THURSDAY VIDEO
8:00PM, May 16, 2013
Refreshments 7:30
Craft in America Part 2
Excerpts from the PBS series.
Special ICON Fundraiser Event
Friday May 17
Doors open 7:30; Film at 8:00
The West Wind: The Vision of
Tom Thomson
Special screening of award
winning Documentary on early
20th century Canadian artist
Tom Thomson.
IICON THURSDAY VIDEO
8:00PM, May 23, 2013
Refreshments 7:30
pina: dance, dance, otherwise
we are lost
Film by Wim Wenders on the
late remarkable dancer and
coreographer Pina Bausch.
ICON THURSDAY VIDEO
8:00PM, May 30, 2013
Refreshments 7:30
Documentary on the life of artist
and conservationist Jay “Ding”
Darling.
ICON THURSDAY VIDEO
8:00PM, June 6, 2013
Refreshments 7:30
The Man With a Camera
Classic 1929 film by Russian
cinema pioneer Dziga Vertov.
1st FRIDAY ARTWALK
6:30 – 10:00PM
Friday, June 7, 2013
Better Half
Exhibition of Paintings by
Davenport Artist Leslie Bell
continues.
In Bill’s Room: Attilio Sinagra:
The Life of an Artist. Large
collection of paintings and
illustrations by the uncle of
Fairfield resident Rosemary
Lucente. “Classic Illustrator of
the 40’s and 50’s. It brings back
memories of the art that
influenced me in my childhood
days” -Bill Teeple
Leslie Bell Paintings at ICON Gallery
Main Gallery at ICON presents Better Half, an exhibition of paintings by well known regional
artist Leslie Bell. Bell recently retired after 38 years as professor of art at Saint Ambrose
University in Davenport. The show opens on the 1st Friday Art Walk, May 3, 6:30 to 10:00pm, and
continues into July.
Bell's work tells the stories of love, education, longing and nature. Jerry Cullum, editor of Art
Paper and critic for Art in America has said, "His recent paintings are a rare combination of vision,
skill and wit. The stories are enacted in brilliantly composed landscapes amid stunning effects of
light. Bell's imagination has created not just magical realism, but real magic."
Although Bell is a male painter his work has a strong feminist tone. The narrative that runs
through his work is of women and girls. He states, "Men already have what they need and more.
Too much, in truth. Women-females-girls could use more acknowledgment; more safety; more
dignity; R-e-s-p-e-c-t. They don't need a pedestal; they need equality. They need to be seen
clearly-body, mind, spirit, other."
"Les carries forward the tradition of narrative figurative painting," says ICON Director Bill Teeple,
"the kind of painting that gives aesthetic pleasure, tells the story of human life, and accesses the
mythic world that universally connects all beings. His paintings unabashedly admit that they have
been painted with paint and a brush by an artist in a studio in a given period of time we might call
'the physical and mental dance of the artist.' It is an honor to have Leslie Bell share his vision with
the Fairfield community."
More . . .
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Leslie Bell, Sisters and Twisters, oil on canvas, 36” X 30”, 2011
1st FRIDAY ARTWALK
