"Several centuries separate Jane Dickson from her Baroque forebears, but her work is also concerned with the tension and contrast between light and dark. Her night-time carnival paintings from the 70s showed a propensity for smudged illuminations of yellows, whites and oranges–nightlife cheaply illuminated. Her hallways and garages shared that level of menace and solace–richly dark with strips of light (that one bulb burning) that sympathetically shaped the carefully placed figures. Their symbolic gestures distilled a sense of the urban underworld, darkness useful, where eroticism, playfulness, greed, and sorrow combine–the carnival within."

-Patricia Spears Jones

In Jane Dickson Almost Home Exhibition Catalogue