Sable Elyse Smith

Sable Elyse Smith (born 1986)[1] is an American interdisciplinary artist and writer.[2] Smith works in photography, neon, text, appropriated imagery,[3] sculpture, and video installation connecting language, violence, and pop culture with autobiographical subject matter.[4] In 2018, Smith was an Artist-in Residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem.[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]

Sable Elyse Smith
Born1986
Los Angeles, California
NationalityAmerican
EducationOglethorpe University, Parsons School of Design
Known forinterdisciplinary art

Early life and education

Smith was born in 1986[1] in Los Angeles, California.[2] 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.[5]

Work

Smith often uses surveillance tape to explore the structure of the incarcerated labor system its corruption.[6]

Smith makes sculptures and two-dimensional works that raise questions about societal problems. Her work is inspired by her father who been incarcerated for most of her life.[4] Her work uses common objects from the prison system to question labor, class, and memory with emphasis on the everyday effects of institutional violence.[8][3] Smith uses coloring books for kids used in court setting as a subject in some of her 2D works.[3] 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."[1]

She was included in the 2019 traveling exhibition Young, Gifted, and Black: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art.[9]

Exhibitions

Solo
  • 2019 - or the song spilling out, Carlos/Ishikawa, London, UK.[10][11]
  • 2018 - Ordinary Violence, Haggerty Museum, Milwaukee, WI.[12]
  • 2018 - BOLO: be on (the) lookout, JTT, New York, New York.[13]
  • 2017-18 - Sable Elyse Smith: Ordinary Violence, Queens Museum, Queens, New York.[14]

Group

References
  1. Mafi, Nick (2020-06-16). "Young Black Artists Speak About the Role of Art in This Moment". Architectural Digest. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  2. "Queens Museum". Retrieved 2020-06-16.
  3. Reid, Tiana (2018-12-13). "Artist Sable Elyse Smith Was Horrified by a Kids' Coloring Book About the Courts". Vulture. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  4. Fisher, Cora (2017-11-11). "An Artist's Bond with Her Imprisoned Father". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
  5. Valentine, Victoria L. (2017-11-10). "Studio Museum in Harlem Announces 2018 Artists-in-Residence". Culture Type. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  6. Herriman, Kat (2017-08-22). "Artist Sable Elyse Smith Takes on the Prison Narrative with New Work". Cultured Magazine. Retrieved 2020-06-16.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. "Columbia University". Retrieved 2021-04-25.
  8. "MOOD: Studio Museum Artists in Residence 2018–19 | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  9. Sargent, Antwaun (2020). Young, gifted and Black : a new generation of artists : Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art. New York, NY: D.A.P. pp. 182–185. ISBN 9781942884590.
  10. "Sable Elyse Smith at CARLOS/ISHIKAWA". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  11. McLean, Matthew (2020-01-28). "Sable Elyse Smith Responds to the Rigged Logic of the US Criminal Justice System". Frieze. No. 209. ISSN 0962-0672. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  12. McAdams, Shane (2018-12-18). "Sable Elyse Smith's 'Ordinary Violence' at the Haggerty Museum of Art". Shepherd Express. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  13. Musser, Amber Jamilla (2018-12-11). "Sable Elyse Smith: BOLO: Be on (the) Lookout". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  14. "Queens Museum". Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  15. "Great Force – Art Papers". www.artpapers.org. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  16. Reid, Tiana (2019-12-19). "In "Banal Presents," Three Black Artists Intervene in Vast Social Institutions, from the Prison System to Education". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  17. Mitter, Siddhartha (2019-08-01). "Silence Speaking Volumes: Artists Confront the Culture of Incarceration". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
  18. Cotter, Holland (2017-09-28). "When It Comes to Gender, Let Confusion Reign". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
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