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JANE DICKSON
Stems showcases 7 works by Jane Dickson.
Jane Dickson is known for her vivid depictions of Times Square’s nocturnal energy. Born in Chicago, Dickson arrived in New York in 1977, and a year later began a job programming visuals for Times Square’s first digital billboard. She mostly worked the night shift and was responsible for the New Year’s Eve countdown, witness to upturned faces basking in the hallucinatory glow. Dickson came to prominence in the New York art world as a part of the late 70s and 80s alternative and punk art scene downtown, as part of the canonical artist cooperative Colab, which staged the Real Estate Show and The Times Square Show in 1980.
When she found herself at the controls of the first electronic billboard at 1 Times Square, Dickson used the opportunity to curate projects by her friends and colleagues, helping to further the careers of Jenny Holzer, Keith Haring, and David Hammons, as well as creating some of the first widely seen digital art.
Times Square Show was known to be the first radical show from the 80s. Dickson was one of the curators and her work has been exhibited next to artists such as Kenny Scharf, Keith Haring, Jean Michel Basquiat, Kiki Smith, Jenny Holzer, Walter Robinson & David Hammons as well as graffiti artists such as Lee Quinones & Fab 5 Freddy.
Jane Dickson was the only artist living in Times Square at that moment.
Solo exhibitions of Jack Dickson’s work have been shown at The Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, Creative Time, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Major museums including The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, the Karamay Museum in Xin Jiang, China, and most recently the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian own her artworks.