Tarrow's large, colorful paintings, often executed with scavenged materials on discarded canvas or cardboard, comprise a surreal menagerie of ghoulish rabbits, ghostly canines, and other visceral grotesqueries. In one piece, the spectre of a rabbit is distracted from reclaiming its severed "lucky" foot by the offer of a carrot; in another, a mother lop devours her kits with the horrific zeal of Goya's Saturn. Though these paintings' strange, scarred inhabitants may visciously prey upon one another, their portraits are tempered with empathy and humor.

Juxtaposing delicate and even perishable objects found in nature with pre-loved toys, antique hardware, and consumer debris - often looking worse for wear than their organic companions - Tarrow's assemblages are subtler and more complex in structure and meaning. By constructing habitats of safety and intimacy with such fragile and incongruous materials, these works confront entropy and decay with serendipity, forgiveness, and hope.

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