Sable Elyse Smith riffs on her long-standing painting series Coloring Book. Her interlaced collages of images from a children's coloring book emphasize the cyclical violence of the prison industrial complex. These works reveal how justice is not the reality of the carceral state, but a myth perpetuated through repeated re-telling.

These works on paper will be shown alongside the film Weather Report.

Sable Elyse Smith is an interdisciplinary artist and writer based in New York. Her creative practice spans the visual, literary, moving image and performing arts. She has built a practice tracing the threads of violence and power embedded within systems of belief, infrastructure, language, intimacy, the quotidian, and beyond. She was recently included on the 2024 TIME100 Next—The magazine's annual list of 100 individuals who are shaping the future of their fields and defining the next generation of leadership. Her work has been featured at the Museum of Modern Art, MoMA Ps1, New Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston and numerous others. In 2022 she was a participant in both the Whitney Biennial, and the 59th Venice Biennale. Most recently her first opera, If you unfolded us premiered at MoMA (July 2024). Smith has received awards from Joan Mitchell Foundation, Creative Capital, Suzanne Deal Booth / Flag Art Foundation Prize, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Fine Arts Work Center, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and Art Matters among others.

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