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The Plain Dealer | Steven Litt  |  November 25, 2018

Spaces hits trifecta with three strong fall shows 'headlined' by Sarah Kabot's 'NYT 2015'

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Like Pop artist Robert Rauschenberg, Cleveland artist Sarah Kabot apparently hates to throw newspapers away.

Instead, she turns them into art.

The newest batch of exhibitions at the nonprofit Spaces gallery in Ohio City is headlined, pardon the pun, by an impressive body of collages by Kabot based on pages of The New York Times and The Plain Dealer.

Rauschenberg fashioned newspaper and magazine illustrations into turbulent mashups of current events in the 1960s and ‘70s.

Examples include “Signs,” a 1970 print on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art in the exhibition “Who RU2 Day” that includes high impact images of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Janis Joplin, the slain Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and a moon walk.

Kabot, an associate professor and chair of the Drawing Department at the Cleveland Institute of Art, has a different, more... Read On