The Expansive Jane Dickson of the West Comes Out in “Are We There Yet?”


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Jane Dickson is Times Square. She lived and painted it in a way that changed the perception of the place for the decades to come. Her oil paintings, often oil on Astroturf, seem to define a hazy, romantic and rather moody version of the place, and in her subsequent works throughout the years, creates a sort of dream of what a memory is. Sometimes forgotten is her work on the West Coast, which has been lovingly revived and curated into Are We There Yet?, a new solo show at Karma’s Los Angeles location. As the gallery points out, “Best known for illuminating the darker corners of New York’s Times Square, Dickson turned her attention in the mid-1990s to Los Angeles’s sprawling…

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