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Sable Smith

New Jersey

“Landscape VI” is an installation of white neon words block-justified in 9 rows on a wide white wall. The words read “ We seem to all be standing here wrapped around this fist tonight Licked knuckles begging: it has to be the same old shit again One street light standing like 36 Tyrones on top of each other’s shoulders. A link-n-log connection–meaning just sitting there in each other’s slots yet empty Slack cotton T-shirts slipping down around the collar bone I’m not even near there myself but still somehow trying to shoulder it Push that shit up just a little longer Raising my arms up over my head and panting”.

Landscape VI

2022

“Gravity” is a wall sculpture formed of 1:1 scale replicas of round prison visiting room stools bolted to bars. The stools are ordered in two lines to form a cross.

Gravity

2022

“Landscape V” is an installation of block-justified white neon words in 3 rows, with a neon blue line below the final line, on a wide white wall. The words read “Someone smashed the policeman’s radio And finally silence A black language infinitely And blue in a decade where it finally means sky”.

Landscape V

2020

“PIVOT I” is a sculptural installation in a white room. In the foreground, 6 1:1 scale replicas of prison visiting room stools with blue tops and black stems are fused together at the base like a large pronged metal Jack toy. In the background, a tv screen hangs from the ceiling displaying an image of a vehicle burning on a street at night.

PIVOT I

2019

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Sobre Sable Smith

Sable Smith leans against a column in an art studio with paintings hanging behind her. She is a Black woman with medium skin tone, wearing glasses and a hat that reads "Artists Make New York" over thin braids. She wears a collared white shirt, and her hands are in the pockets of her black slacks.
Photo by Tommy Kha

La obra de Sable Smith ha sido expuesta en el MoMA Ps1, el New Museum, el Studio Museum de Harlem, la galería JTT y muchos otros. Smith ha recibido premios de Creative Capital, Fine Arts Work Center, Queens Museum, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, Franklin Furnace Fund, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation y Art Matters. Recientemente ha participado en la Bienal del Whitney de 2022 y en la 59ª Exposición Internacional de Arte La Biennale di Venezia, también en 2022. Smith es actualmente Profesora Adjunta de Artes Visuales en la Universidad de Columbia.

Participación en el programa

Joan Mitchell Fellowship, 2023

“ Hago trabajos que complican nuestra comprensión de la prisión y de cómo nombramos, identificamos y localizamos la violencia. Qué es, cuándo es y qué puede ser. Un tipo de violencia que en gran medida no se ve, y potencialmente imperceptible. Éstas son las cosas que mi práctica prioriza sacar a la superficie.”