Sarah Kabot

The works by Sarah Kabot reflect the inevitable distortions and omissions occurring in the public recollection of distant but meaningful news events. Each collage combines photographs printed within a cover section of an edition of The New York Times. The intricately cut images are reassembled into compositions reminiscent of ink stains or scribbles. Additionally, her newly created, large-scale sculptural installation combines background elements of images printed in both The Plain Dealer and The New York Times, approximating architectural space. Kabot’s work has been shown nationally and abroad, at institutions including The Suburban, Smack Mellon, the Akron Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Drawing Center, the Peabody Essex Museum, Denny Gallery, and Tegnerforbundet. In 2013, Kabot completed two large public art commissions in Ohio. Recent honors include residencies at Dieu Donne Papermill, a Swing Space residency through the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the Headlands Center for Art, and Ucross. Her work is in the public collections of the West Collection, the Cleveland Clinic, and Progressive Insurance. She is currently associate professor and chair of the Drawing Department at the Cleveland Institute of Art.