Paintings by Jim Weidle

Jim Weidle Solo Show opens at ICON April 5th
A show of paintings by Jim Weidle will open at ICON Gallery in Fairfield on April 5th as part of the First Friday Art Walk, 6:30 to 10:00pm. The show runs through June 15.
“Jim Weidle is one of the best artists living in Fairfield,” says ICON Director, Bill Teeple. “A solo show at ICON is long over do. It’s my pleasure to share the incredible range of his realistic work. He truly is a painter’s painter. I don’t think anything could set the stage for experiencing his art better than his own words.”

“As an artist who paints landscapes, Weidle’s rejection of the picturesque, merged with his sensitivity to tone and penchant for accurate description, sets a very high bar. And yet, as formally masterful and sensitive to nuance as he is in depicting countless ordinary shapes, a lot more seems to be happening in these paintings. If an archetypal “American” painting style began in the mid-19th century, with the Hudson River School, and the celebration of the unspoiled American landscape, then artists such as Rackstraw Downes, Stanley Lewis, Cindy Tower, and Jim Weidle show what happened to that landscape after it was annexed by waves of optimism mixed with arrogance and greed. While Downes, Lewis, and Tower paint complex, beautiful paintings of ugly or abandoned rubbish-filled factories, and rural life’s weedy disorder, Weidle turns his attention to littered grounds, dense forest growth, and gravel yards. It seems as if we are stuck in the middle of nowhere.”

John Yau, October 12, 2022,
“Jim Weidle and Our Beautiful Despair”
www.hyperallergic.com

Gallery Open: 12-5 Tuesday – Saturday

58 North Main StreetFairfield, IA 52556.  641.919.6252 bill@icon-art.orgiconbillteeple@gmail.com

Information on the artist is available on his website at weidleart.com

ICON Gallery is located at 58 N. Main St., Fairfield. Hours: Tuesday through Saturday noon to 5:00. For more information 641 919 6252, or iconbillteeple@gmail.com