Tabatha Terry is a sculptor based in Kansas City, MO whose work utilizes repurposed grocery packaging, waste plastics, paper, reworked fabrics, and aluminum to create representational sculptures of grocery store items such as steaks, ground beef, cuts of fish, and other foodstuffs.  Through her use of  recycled and repurposed materials, Terry seeks to create both individual pieces as well as installations which confront both the practical as well as the moral issues surrounding the production and distribution of perishable goods. These pieces also serve as a reflection of the artist's own experiences growing up on a small cattle ranch, mirroring her own participation within the food production trade and the complicated, often traumatic, nature of farming practices in one’s formative years.

Terry’s work invites its viewers to question the implications of scientific innovation, technical advancements, factory and small farm practices, consumption, cruelty, access, sustainability, and waste that naturally comes along with the pressing necessity of feeding the human population.

The works focus on highlighting and questioning these issues all along the food supply chain from farm and field, to the grocery store shelf, to our own living spaces and bodies.