Sable Elyse Smith Explained

Sable Elyse Smith
Birth Date:1986
Birth Place:Los Angeles, California
Nationality:American
Field:interdisciplinary art

Sable Elyse Smith (born 1986) is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and educator based in New York.[1] Smith works in photography, neon, text, appropriated imagery,[2] sculpture, and video installation connecting language, violence, and pop culture with autobiographical subject matter.[3] In 2018, Smith was an Artist-in Residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem.[4] Her work was first featured at several areas such as MoMA ps1, New Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Philadelphia, MIT list visual arts center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and other places.[5] The artist lives and works in Richmond, Virginia, and New York City.[6] She has been an assistant professor of Visual Arts at Columbia University since 2020.[7]

Early life and education

Smith was born in 1986[8] in Los Angeles, California.[1] Smith holds a B.A. in studio art and film from Oglethorpe University and a MFA in Design & Technology from Parsons the New School for Design.

Work

Smith often uses surveillance tape to explore the structure of the incarcerated labor system and its corruption.

Smith makes sculptures and two-dimensional works that raise questions about societal problems. Her work is inspired by her father who had been incarcerated for most of her life. Her work uses common objects from the prison system to question labor, class, and memory with emphasis on the everyday effects of institutional violence.[9] [2] Smith uses coloring books for children used in court setting as a subject in some of her 2D works.[2] Smith has talked about her work stating: “The work should never say the same thing to every viewer. It is multi-vocal in its address and affect—that's the point."[8] She has received several awards from Creative Capital, Fine Arts Work Center, the Queens Museum, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Rea Hort Mann Foundation, the Franklin Furnace Fund, and Art Matter.[5]

Smith has also made sculptures from furniture designed for the prison system.[10] Her large-scale sculpture A Clockwork (2021), a motorized rotating ferris wheel made of jet-black tables and chairs designed for prison visitation rooms, was included in Quiet as It's Kept, the 2022 Whitney Biennial.[11]

Exhibitions

Smith has staged an array of solo shows at galleries and museums in the United States and internationally. Her notable solo shows include Sable Elyse Smith: Blue is Ubiquitous and Forbidden (2015), SOHO20, New York;[12] Sable Elyse Smith: Ordinary Violence (2017-2018), Queens Museum, New York;[13] How We Tell Stories to Children (2018), Atlanta Contemporary;[14] or the song spilling out (2019), Carlos/Ishikawa Gallery, London;[15] and Tithe (2022), JTT Gallery, New York.[16]

She has also participated in a large number of group exhibitions, including the Whitney Biennial (2022);[17] and the 59th Venice Biennale (2022).[18]

Notable works in public collections

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Queens Museum. 2020-06-16. en-US.
  2. Web site: Reid. Tiana. 2018-12-13. Artist Sable Elyse Smith Was Horrified by a Kids' Coloring Book About the Courts. 2020-06-17. Vulture. en-us.
  3. Web site: 2017-11-11. An Artist's Bond with Her Imprisoned Father. Cora. Fisher. 2020-06-16. Hyperallergic. en-US.
  4. Web site: Studio Museum in Harlem Announces 2018 Artists-in-Residence. Victoria L.. Valentine. Culture Type . 2017-11-10. 2020-06-17. en-US.
  5. Web site: The School of the Arts Welcomes Sable Elyse Smith, Assistant Professor of Visual Arts . 2022-06-15 . Columbia - School of the Arts . en.
  6. News: Herriman. Kat. 2017-08-22. Artist Sable Elyse Smith Takes on the Prison Narrative with New Work. en-US. Cultured Magazine. 2020-06-16.
  7. Web site: Columbia University. 2021-04-25. en-US.
  8. Web site: Mafi . Nick . 2020-06-16 . Young Black Artists Speak About the Role of Art in This Moment . 2020-06-17 . Architectural Digest . en-us.
  9. Web site: MOOD: Studio Museum Artists in Residence 2018–19 MoMA. 2020-06-17. The Museum of Modern Art. en.
  10. McLean. Matthew. Sable Elyse Smith Responds to the Rigged Logic of the US Criminal Justice System. en. frieze. 28 January 2020. 209 . 20 December 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20200128150047/https://www.frieze.com/article/sable-elyse-smith-responds-rigged-logic-us-criminal-justice-system . 28 January 2020 . subscription.
  11. Web site: Durón . Maximilíano . 12 Standouts at the 2022 Whitney Biennial, Where Poetic Reflections on Past Two Years Shine Brightly . . 21 December 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221017181935/https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/artists/2022-whitney-biennial-standouts-1234623257/denyse-thomasos-2/ . 17 October 2022 . 29 March 2022 . live.
  12. Web site: Sable Elyse Smith: Blue is Ubiquitous and Forbidden . . 21 December 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221218192711/https://soho20gallery.com/sable-elyse-smith-blue-is-ubiquitous-and-forbidden/ . 18 December 2022 . live.
  13. Web site: Sable Elyse Smith at Queens Museum, New York . . 21 December 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220519054914/https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/sable-elyse-smith-queens-museum-new-york-9538/ . 19 May 2022 . 26 December 2017 . live.
  14. Web site: Sable Elyse Smith . . 21 December 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220703105510/https://atlantacontemporary.org/exhibitions/sable-elyse-smith . 3 July 2022 . live.
  15. Web site: Sable Elyse Smith at Carlos/Ishikawa . . 21 December 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221218192706/https://www.artforum.com/picks/sable-elyse-smith-81416 . 18 December 2022 . live.
  16. Fateman . Johanna . Sable Elyse Smith . . 21 December 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221106201239/https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/art/sable-elyse-smith . 6 November 2022 . live.
  17. Web site: 2022 Whitney Biennial . Whitney . . 21 December 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221218192705/https://whitney.org/exhibitions/2022-biennial . 18 December 2022 . live.
  18. Web site: Sable Elyse Smith . LaBiennale . 5 April 2022 . . 21 December 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221218192715/https://www.labiennale.org/en/art/2022/milk-dreams/sable-elyse-smith . 18 December 2022 . live.
  19. Web site: How We Tell Stories to Children . . 21 December 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220524084211/https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/224866 . 24 May 2022 . live.
  20. Web site: 7665 Days . Whitney . . 21 December 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201103071740/https://whitney.org/collection/works/58443 . 3 November 2020 . live.
  21. Web site: 7665 Nights . Whitney . . 21 December 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201103071727/https://whitney.org/collection/works/58444 . 3 November 2020 . live.
  22. Web site: Visiting . . 21 December 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220730185427/https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/224713 . 30 July 2022 . live.
  23. Web site: Coloring Book 9 . Guggenheim . . 21 December 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221206015327/https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/38631 . 6 December 2022 . live.
  24. Web site: 8093 Days . Hessel Museum . . 21 December 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221221050257/https://bard.emuseum.com/objects/5921/8093-days? . 21 December 2022 . live.
  25. Web site: Coloring Book 61 . ICAMiami . . 21 December 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220526050125/https://icamiami.org/collection/sable-elyse-smith-coloring-book-61-2020-2/ . 26 May 2022 . live.
  26. Web site: Coloring Book 66 . Hessel Museum . . 21 December 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221221050448/https://bard.emuseum.com/objects/7360/coloring-book-66? . 21 December 2022 . live.
  27. Web site: Coloring Book 98 . Hessel Museum . . 21 December 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221221050205/https://bard.emuseum.com/objects/7908/coloring-book-98 . 21 December 2022 . live.

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