What Will You See at Sable Elyse Smith’s SKY FENCE GROUND at Regen Projects?

Short answer

SKY FENCE GROUND, a solo exhibition by Sable Elyse Smith, opens at Regen Projects, 6750 Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood, on Friday, November 6, 2026, and runs through December 19. The show presents new woven works on paper, the video skin suit (2026) and the monumental kinetic sculpture A Clockwork (2021), a Ferris wheel built from prison tables and stools.

Key facts

• Who: Sable Elyse Smith, born 1986 in Los Angeles; TIME100 Next (2024), the 59th Venice Biennale and the 2022 Whitney Biennial.
• What: SKY FENCE GROUND — woven works on paper, a recent video and a monumental kinetic sculpture.
• Where: Regen Projects, 6750 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90038.
• When: November 6 – December 19, 2026.
• Hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 10 AM to 6 PM. Admission is free.

What is the show about?

Regen Projects describes an exhibition that “enlists and disrupts the language of formalism”: Smith uses repetition, shorthand and distortion to expose how visual systems carry power. In the new works on paper she slices and reweaves pages from her Coloring Books series — originally drawn from an activity book designed to teach children about the judicial process — into overlapping grids that break the scenes apart. The effect turns a Minimalist-looking surface into evidence of the system the source material teaches.

What is the Ferris wheel sculpture?

A Clockwork (2021), shown at the 2022 Whitney Biennial and in Smith’s 2026 survey at The Contemporary Austin, repeats the form of prison tables and stools until they become a slowly rotating Ferris wheel. Smith describes it as anchored in “the duration of time, on doing time, on banality and enclosure.” The new video skin suit (2026) collages police-chase and bodycam footage popularized by reality television, asking what happens between the images when violence is replayed as entertainment.

Why is this artist worth knowing?

Smith’s work is in the collections of MoMA, the Whitney, the Guggenheim and The Studio Museum in Harlem, among others. Her largest museum survey to date, Clockwork, runs at the FLAG Art Foundation in New York through February 13, 2027, and a first monograph follows in early 2027. This Regen Projects show is a chance to see her newest work in the city where she was born — a good moment to read up on how commercial galleries build an artist’s career alongside museum shows.

How do you visit?

Regen Projects is at 6750 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90038, open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 AM to 6 PM. Entry is free. The exhibition opens Friday, November 6 and closes December 19, 2026. If you want a way into the woven works, our guide on slow, structured looking transfers well to abstraction.

FAQ

Is entry free?

Yes. Regen Projects is free and open to the public Tuesday through Saturday, 10 AM to 6 PM.

What are the dates?

November 6 through December 19, 2026.

Is the Ferris wheel sculpture new?

No. A Clockwork is from 2021 and was shown at the 2022 Whitney Biennial; the woven works on paper are new, and the video skin suit is from 2026.

Where else can you see her work?

Her survey Clockwork is at the FLAG Art Foundation in New York through February 13, 2027.

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Sources

• Regen Projects via Gallery Platform LA, exhibition page: works on view, artist biography, dates and opening day.
• Regen Projects, gallery contact page: address, hours and phone.

More context: our guides to Kiki Smith’s return to Los Angeles at Pace and Jeffrey Deitch, and Cecilia Vicuña’s Dream of Water at MOCA.