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Collaged newsprint
36 x 24 inches
Courtesy of the artist
Estimated Retail Value: $4,000
Starting Bid: $2,000
Sarah Kabot reimagines images, spaces, and institutions often viewed as pillars of social stability and public trust. Copying, excising, and re-presenting information, works like NYT December 2018 reveal the subjective expression and inherent fragility within systems we often deem permanent or objective. This work is part of her ongoing series, The Weekly Paper, in which she collages self-selected images sourced from a single week’s newspaper. Hand-cut directly from the print edition, she reassembles these images into intricate, abstracted compositions that create new impressions of the headlining stories. Created specifically for the moCa benefit using newspapers from December 2018—the month of moCa’s 50th anniversary—this work features women Democratic politicians such a Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren, one of the last residents of a Bowery rooming house, a refugee family, a portrait of famed artist Judy Chicago, among others.
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Sarah Kabot
Kabot’s work has been shown nationally and abroad at institutions including The Suburban (IL), SPACES Gallery (OH), Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MI), the Akron Museum of Art (OH), the Museum of Contemporary Art (OH), the Drawing Center (NY), the Peabody Essex Museum (MA), and Tegnerforbundet in Norway. Honors include residencies at the Hambidge Center (GA), Dieu Donne Papermill (NY), the Vermont Studio Center (VT), the Headlands Center for Art (CA), and UCross (WY). Sarah has been the recipient of several grants and prizes, including a Knight Foundation Technology Grant in 2021, a Cleveland Arts Prize for Mid-Career artist in 2017, a 2016 Creative Workforce Fellowship, and 2019, 2015, and 2010 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards. Her work is held in public and private collections, including Progressive Insurance, The Cleveland Clinic, and the West Collection. Public Art projects include permanent installations in the Cuyahoga County Library System, the Avenue District in downtown Cleveland, and a collaborative project with her design partner, Marianne Desmarais, at the Westin in downtown Cleveland. Kabot and Desmarais are currently in production on a project for the Cleveland Clinic Main Campus.
She is currently Associate Professor and Chair of the Drawing Department at the Cleveland Institute of Art in Ohio.
