Sable Elyse Smith A Clockwork, 2021 aluminum, steel, motor 175.5 x 165 x 98 in

“American Wedding” by Essex Hemphill

In america, I place my ring on your cock where it belongs. No horsemen bearing terror, no soldiers of doom will swoop in and sweep us apart. They’re too busy looting the land to watch us. They don’t know we need each other critically. They expect us to call in sick, watch television all night, die by our own hands. They don’t know we are becoming powerful. Every time we kiss we confirm the new world coming. What the rose whispers before blooming I vow to you. I give you my heart, a safe house. I give you promises other than milk, honey, liberty. I assume you will always be a free man with a dream. In america, place your ring on my cock where it belongs. Long may we live to free this dream. Art: Sable Elyse Smith, Coloring Book 61, 2020 Screen printing ink and oil stick on paper, 60 x 50 in. Poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53015/american-wedding

That dyke always chill. Soft breeze.

Sable Elyse Smith, visual artist, writer, curator

Marking Time, Arts in the age of mass incarceration (with Jared Owens, George Anthony Morton, Gwendolyn Garth, Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick, Russell Craig, Mark Loughney, Gilberto Rivera, Sable Elyse Smith and Larry Cook), Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Harlem NY (May 1 - December 4, 2023)

This may be a holiday week, but for us it's still a chance to highlight standout new releases that support the resilience and optimism we want for 2023. Thus, Njideka Akunyili Crosby's "The Beautyful Ones," Series #7 (2018) from 'To Begin Again: Artists and Childhood,' published to accompany the exhibition currently on view at @icaboston surveying the ways artists have reflected on and contributed to notions of childhood from the early twentieth century to the present. ⁠ ⁠ The editors write: "Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s portraits of Nigerian youth, built from a layered ground of historical, popular and personal photographs transferred to canvas, stage the interactions between sociohistorical conditions and the individual that are at the heart of human development. Her young figures return the viewer’s gaze with an uncanny self-possession and wisdom beyond their years." ⁠ ⁠ Artists include Ann Agee, John Ahearn, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Francis Alÿs, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Brian Belott, Jordan Casteel, Lenka Clayton, Allan Rohan Crite, Henry Darger, Karon Davis, Robert Gober, Jay Lynn Gomez, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Duane Hanson, Mona Hatoum, Sharon Hayes, Ekua Holmes, Mary Kelly, Paul Klee, Justine Kurland, Helen Levitt, Tau Lewis, Glenn Ligon, Oscar Murillo, Rivane Neuenschwander, Berenice Olmedo, Charles Ray, Faith Ringgold, Deborah Roberts, Tim Rollins and K.O.S., Rachel Rose, Heji Shin, Sable Elyse Smith, Becky Suss, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Cathy Wilkes and Carmen Winant.⁠ ⁠ Copublished by @delmonico_books⁠ ⁠ Edited with text by @jeffreydeblois & @rutherickson ⁠ Foreword by #jillmedv. ⁠ Text by @sirjoshbennett Anna Craycroft, Anne Higonnet, @valeria_luiselli ⁠ Interviews with @naimajoy @lacachepli @sable_elyse @mlukeles & @carmen.winant⁠ ⁠ @njidekaakunyilicrosby #njidekaakunyilicrosby #thebeautyfulones #tobeginagain #artistsandchildhood⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmwvd9LJLOU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Almost is Never Enough

Friday August 25th 2023 12.42

I'd like to say we gave it a try I'd like to blame it all on life Maybe we just weren't right But that's a lie, that's a lie

And we can deny it as much as we want But in time our feelings will show 'Cause sooner or later we'll wonder why we gave up The truth is everyone knows, oh

Almost, almost is never enough So close to being in love If I would have known that you wanted me The way I wanted you Then maybe we wouldn't be two worlds apart But right here in each other's arms And we almost, we almost knew what love was But almost is never enough

If I could change the world overnight There'd be no such thing as goodbye You'd be standing right where you were And we'd get the chance we deserve, oh

Try to deny it as much as you want But in time our feelings will show 'Cause sooner or later we'll wonder why we gave up The truth is everyone knows

Almost, almost is never enough So close to being in love If I would have known that you wanted me The way I wanted you, oh Then maybe we wouldn't be two worlds apart But right here in each other's arms And we almost, we almost knew what love was But almost is never enough

Huh (huh-huh), huh, baby (mm) You know, you know, baby Almost, (baby, baby) is never enough, baby (baby) You know, (hm-hm) hey

And we can deny it as much as we want But in time our feelings will show 'Cause sooner or later we'll wonder why we gave up The truth is everyone knows

Almost, almost is never enough (is never enough, baby) (We were close) so close to being in love (so close) If I would have known that you wanted me (that you wanted me) The way I wanted you, babe Then maybe we wouldn't be two worlds apart But right here in each other's arms And we almost, we almost knew what love was (baby) But almost is never enough

Huh, huh, baby (almost) You know, you know, baby Almost, is never enough, baby (never) You know, hey

Thank you for the truth and the confession, so I'll keep it on my stories, maybe on my art or my poems. Now, just keep going to live our each life with your family and my family. I am so thankful to know you, maybe we're not met as a lover, but we could be a friends, a team for some movement. Maybe our time wasn't ours, It was Him. One day, I'll get my happiness too. Let's we walk, in our EACH path. Thank you, J.

Jonathan berger (F '15), Nayland blake (F '02, '17), Danielle Dean (A '12) Jane Dickson (F '90), Ellen Gallagher (A '93, F '05) Ralph Lemon (F '17), Walter Matthews (A '17), Dave McKenzie (F '11, '17 A '00), Rodney McMillian (A '00) Wu Tsang (F '17), Lucy Raven (F '19), Jason Rhoades (A '88), Sable Elyse Smith (A '15) Denyse Thomasos (A '88) & Trinh T. Minh-hah (F '96)

2022 Whitney Biennial: Quiet as It’s Kept 99 Gansevoort St, New York, NY April 6–November 5

A Clockwork by Sable Elyse Smith is a small ferris wheel constructed with tables and chairs from a prison

Sable Elyse Smith

 Coloring Book 65. 2020

 Screenprint with oil stick

This is your last week to check out video art by Liz Johnson Artur, Arthur Jafa, Steffani Jemison, Ahmed Mater, Marilyn Minter, Wangechi Mutu, Rashaad Newsome, Ebony G. Patterson, Sable Elyse Smith, Tourmaline, Nari Ward with Zachary Fabri, and Sasha Wortzel, before Art on the Stoop: Sunset Screenings shifts to its second program! 

This first program, running through October 11, explores themes of power and uncertainty, distance and loss, and history’s hand in our present times, and the three videos featured here ruminate on how space and place impact lives and history. 

In This is an Address I, Sasha Wortzel explores the precarity of unhoused LGBTQ+ people living on Manhattan’s Gansevoort Penninsula in 1995, and more recent construction on the pier.  

Sable Elyse Smith’s How We Tell Stories to Children, is a tender narrative of connection despite enforced distance, incorporating found footage, audio of the artist reading, and videos recorded by her father while incarcerated. 

Finally, Ahmed Mater’s Leaves Fall in All Seasons combines video footage of construction, destruction, and labor rights protests shot by workers across a decade of rapid development in the Islamic holy city Mecca. 

Check out the schedule on our website to make plans to experience these highlights of our video art collection!   

Sasha Wortzel (born Fort Myers, Florida, 1983) This is an Address I, 2019 [Still]. Single-channel video (color, sound): 17 min., 12 sec. Brooklyn Museum; Gift of the artist with support from the Mary Smith Dorward Fund 2019.40a ⇨ Sable Elyse Smith (born Los Angeles, California, 1986) How We Tell Stories to Children, 2015 [Still]. Single-channel video (color, sound): 5 min., 51 sec. Brooklyn Museum; Gift of Isaac Joseph 2019.37 ⇨ Ahmed Mater (born Abha, Saudi Arabia, 1979). Leaves Fall in All Seasons, 2013 [Still]. Single-channel video (color, sound): 19 min., 57 sec. Brooklyn Museum; Purchased with funds given by an anonymous donor. 2018.56.5

Sable Elyse Smith, Landscape I, 2017, neon, installation view

Sable Elyse Smith, Coloring Book 63

Sable Elyse Smith

Spread, 2018

343 packs of chicken flavor Ramen, thirty-two bricks 10 1/2 × 30 1/2 × 29 1/2 in 26.7 × 77.5 × 74.9 cm

Buyer Guide to 2022 Whitney Biennial, From Turner Choice Award to Non-Representative Advocate

Whitney Biennial opened up to the public last week, a week after the world’s giants had already flocked to his VIP opening, and decided among themselves who the upcoming artists would set their sights on further their collection collection in 2022. The last two years have been marked by scandals and protests, but this year’s edition — perhaps under the motto “Silence as it is maintained” – has…

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A book that is making us pause. 'Sable Elyse Smith: And Blue in a Decade Where It Finally Means Sky' — the first major monograph on the artist — from @jtt_nyc & @regenprojects⁠ ⁠ Working in video, sculpture, photography, and text-based artworks, Smith draws attention to American systems of inequity⁠ ⁠ Text by @horaceballard Johanna Burton, @king_nk & Christina Sharpe.⁠ ⁠ Images or details here: ⁠ Landscape V, 2020⁠ C.R.E.A.M., 2018⁠ Still from END-LESSsestina, 2019⁠ ⁠ More via linkinbio⁠ ⁠ #sableelysesmith @sable_elyse https://www.instagram.com/p/CjQ6vhlJ1N7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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