Jane Dickson (b. 1952)
hand signed; Edition HC 1/1; dated 1991
aquatint printed in black
Title: "Reveler Tooting Her Own Horn."
Provenance: Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, New York.
Jane Dickson has been exhibiting her oil stick painting, watercolor drawing, and prints in museums and galleries domestically and internationally for two decades. She frequently works with unusual surfaces such as Astroturf, sandpaper, vinyl, or carpet to exploit the implicit references and the textural possibilities these materials offer. She was part of an eclectic East Village (Greenwich village) scene that included Keith Haring, John Crash Matos, Jenny Holzer, Jeff Koons, Kenny Scharf, David Wojnarowicz, Robert Crumb and Richard Hambleton.
Solo exhibitions of her work have been shown at The Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, Creative Time, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 2008 she completed a mosaic for MTA in the 42nd street station. In 2010 she was invited to paint a leather jacket for the Andy Warhol Museum. In the early eighties, Warhol collected leather jackets, including one painted with his portrait and that of Jean-Michel Basquiat by the new wave artist Stefano Castronovo. Artists commissioned for this project include Castronovo, Rita Ackermann, Frederick “Fab Five Freddy” Brathwaite, Dan Colen, Ronnie Cutrone, Jane Dickson, Duncan Hannah, Lee Quinones, Tom Sachs, Kenny Scharf, Walter Steding and Ouattara Watts. Her images have appeared extensively in books and periodicals. She received awards from the National Academy of Arts & Science, the Joan Mitchell Foundation and was the recipient of the Bau Residency in Cassis, France.
Museum Collections
The National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
The Bronx Museum, New York
Yale University, CT
Philadelphia Academy of Fine Art. PA
The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
The Brooklyn Museum, New York
The Katzen Art Center at American University, Washington DC
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin
Illinois State University Gallery, Normal
The Jewish Museum, NYC
Kings College, Cambridge, England
The Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Minneapolis Museum of Art, MN
The McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts
The Museum of the City of New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.
The New School for Social Research, New York
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
The San Francisco Museum of Art, CA
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Select Group Exhibitions
2019 New York Underground: East Village in the 80s , Wuhan, China
Basquiat: The Artist and His New York Scene, Schunck Museum of Art, Heerlen, Netherlands
2018 New York Underground: East Village in the 80s, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
We Dissent: Design of the Women’s Movement in New York, Cooper Union Gallery, NYC
Shoot the Pump, Bullet Space, NYC
Zeitgeist: The Art Scene of Teenage Jean Michel Basquiat, Howl Happening and Maier Museum of Art,
May China 2018 Art Expo Tour, Beijing Painter’s Academy, Beijing, China and Urumqi Painter’s Academy,
Artist Multiples, curated by Jeffrey Deitch, Uniqlo Soho, NYC
2015 The Annual 2015: The Depth of the Surface, National Academy, New York, NY
KIEV Biennial, Kiev Ukraine, Sept. "Mistakes Were Made" curated by John Miller
Coney Art Walls Curated by Jeffrey Deitch, Coney Island, NYC
2010 Down by Law Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton NY
The Street as Studio Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria
Neither Model nor Muse, Women as Artists McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
American Iconography Adam Baumgold Gallery, NYC
2005 The East Village Show, The New Museum, NYC
2004 Get Off! The Museum of Sex, New York, NY
New York, New York Marlborough Gallery, Madrid & Granada, Spain
1985 Correspondences: New York Art Now Laforet Museum, Harajuku, Tokyo; Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya; Tahaki Hall Espace
Biennial Exhibition The Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC (with Group Material)
1984 Show Ronald Feldman, NYC
State of the Art Barbara Gladstone Gallery, NYC
1982 Forest Avenue Maze P.S. 184, South Bronx, New York
London-New York Lisson Gallery, London
1981 Two Suitcases Show Colab, AND/OR Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Cave Girls Show White Columns Gallery, NYC
1980 Fashion Moda Show The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC
Lower Manhattan Drawings Show Mudd Club Gallery, NYC