Jane Dickson on painting and living in ‘Lawless’ New York in the troubled 1970s And ‘80s
Katy Cowan, Creative Boom
November 2018
If you want to know what was going on in New York in the 1970s and ‘80s, American artist Jane Dickson is someone who can enlighten you. She was part of the city’s cultural movement, joining the legacies of downtown art, punk rock and hip-hop and she painted whatever she saw.
In the midst of this groundbreaking work, Jane lived, worked and raised two children in an apartment on 43rd Street and 8th Avenue at a time when the neighbourhood was at its most infamous, crime-ridden, and spectacularly seedy. Through it all, Jane photographed, drew and painted extraordinary scenes of life in and around Times Square. […]