IOWA CONTEMPORARY ART | 58 North Main Street, Fairfield, IA 52556
641-919-6252 | bill@icon-art.org | iconbillteeple@gmail.com
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Rutherford and Teeple Show at ICON in February
Abstraction/Realism, an exhibition featuring the work of Michael Rutherford and Bill
Teeple will open February 6th on Fairfield’s First Friday. The small non-
representational abstract paintings by Rutherford are juxtaposed to Teeple's small
photo-realistic landscapes.
Both artist's small paintings draw one in, to experience them intimately. One takes
you to a poetic experience of the real world around us in Fairfield; the other takes
you deep into the world of color, form, texture and space
The show runs through April 11th.
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 2026 ICON EXHIBITS:
Rutherford / Teeple
Abstraction / Realism
February 6th through April 11
Madeline de Joly Retrospective
Gillian Brown
Mark Petrick
