In the middle of the night
Gwynned Vitello, Juxtapoz Magazine
September 2021
“I am a pretty literal person… a plainspoken Midwesterner.” Jane Dickson makes comfortable eye contact and speaks in approachable, matter-of-fact cadence, recalling how she didn’t get around to applying for college, but sort of backed into Harvard. Summers in Paris visiting her mother and attending classes at Beaux Arts only reinforced her fascination with defining America, though you won’t find any amber waves of grain in her oeuvre. Without frills or drama, she introduces us to strip clubs, tattoo parlors, casinos and suburban sprawl, often layered in loneliness, but always without judgment, always accompanied by a flicker of ambiguous light. […]