Jane Dickson: ‘Fist of Fury’
Eddy Frankel, TimeOut
May 2023
From her loft above Times Square in New York, Jane Dickson could spy into the shadows. The city, in the 1970s when she first moved there, was full of dark corners beneath glistening neons, hidden spaces right there in plain sight.
For decades she photographed the strip show signs, the leering, horny men, the glowing cinema boards, and then she transformed them into heavy, murky paintings. This new series is based instead on a bag of negatives of the same streets in the 1980s, but it’s still incredible. […]