Jane Dickson “99¢ Dreams”

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[Image: Jane Dickson "Do Not Obstruct" (2021) Signed and dated verso Acrylic on felt 63 x 74 in.]

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In Jane Dickson’s 99¢ Dreams, the past overlaps into the present. For Dickson, observing the world in paintings and photographs has been a decades-long practice of grounding and location. Through her images, Dickson does the same for us, too. In a period of pandemic isolation, Dickson revisited photographs she’d taken of Times Square in the 1980s, where she lived her first 12 years in the city. Looking at them now, she recalls the key details of those moments she once occupied. Other details sink into the shadows, and the intentional use of perspective—looking up at an angle or down into a scene—situates us firmly within the image. Since that time, Dickson has traveled across the US, steadily expanding her life-long project of reflecting the American psyche through the country’s landscapes of highways, tunnels, billboards, parking lots, demolition derbies, motels, strip clubs, and casinos. 99¢ Dreams celebrates this commitment.