ICON Gallery Permanent Collection

A GLIMPSE OF THE ICON PERMANENT COLLECTION

ICON has been a gathering together a collection of art over its 21-year history. There are now over 400 works in the collection. Art has been donated by supporters and purchased by ICON from artists who have exhibited at the ICON Gallery. Art has also been pledged to the collection by artists and collectors in Fairfield.

ICON founder and Director Bill Teeple, feels the collection should celebrate the strong contemporary art produced in Fairfield in the last 30 years of the twentieth century and early 21st century, but he also feels that the collection should honor a broad spectrum of work. “Since ICON’s mission is educational,” says Teeple, “I want the collection to be an educational body of work that teaches us of other cultures, and of the value of divergent approaches and points of view.

Pieces by world famous artists such as Sam Francis and Salvador Dali stand next to works by known and unknown Fairfield artists, work from different cultures, and work by outsider artists.” Bill Teeple’s vision is to have ICON Gallery go forward into the future as a unique small museum that presents work from the permanent collection along with pieces on long term loan from regional artists, dealers and collectors.

The goal is not to create a small-scale version of what an art museum is expected to be, but rather to create a space that takes the viewer on a trip through a spectrum of art sensibilities.