Sable Elyse Smith Makes Art From a Coloring Book About Court

Artist Sable Elyse Smith’s solo show at JTT Gallery “BOLO: Be on (the) Lookout” uses a coloring book meant to teach children how to interface with court systems as source material to probe how innocence is used as a defense for systematic violence.

Sable Elyse Smith. Coloring Book 63. 2020

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