Jane Dickson @ Alison Jacques

‘Fist of Fury’, Jane Dickson’s exhibition surveys both historical and recent paintings from her acclaimed ‘Times Square’ series, with a focus on signage from cinemas, adult entertainment establishments, hotels, liquor stores, and other late-night businesses.

Blinking advertisements, gloomy streets, naked flesh and furtive glances: Jane Dickson’s paintings and drawings evoke the nocturnal world of Times Square in the 1970s and ’80s, a place where dim stairwells are illuminated not by the moon but by neon signs and shadows are privileged over light.