Sable Elyse Smith: And Blue in a Decade Where It Finally Means Sky blues and surface merge in these

and surface merge in these sculptures and mesmerize the viewer

Alice Rawsthorn

Knit from soft

Kobena Mercer

Patterson asked women in a variety of creative fields to respond to a list of prompts about the past 30 days

Sable Elyse Smith: And Blue in a Decade Where It Finally Means Sky blues and surface merge in theseWorking in video, sculpture, photography, and text based artworks, Smith draws attention to American systems of inequity This is the first major monograph dedicated to the New Yorkbased artist Sable Elyse Smith (born 1986). Through her wide ranging multimedia practice, Smith elucidates how the carceral state (read America) quietly inflicts violence and is constantly reinforced by the seemingly banal: from furniture found in prison visitation rooms, to