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Ted Barr
Israel
Artist highlights
- Major permanent collection
- Established Artist
- International Exposure
- Residency Participant
- Favorited by galleries
- Featured in gallery curations
Other artworks by Ted Barr
Artwork details
- Medium : Acrylic, Oil on Canvas
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 78.7x39.4in
About this artwork
The Ouroboros belongs to an ancient myth about a dragon snake eating its tail while it continues to grow its tail and expands its visibility. The Ouroboros speaks about eternity. I tried to express in this artwork my life view, we were born, and we will cease to exist in a very short time (in universal terms). What remains is what other people remember, and the change of form from physical to energy (some would call it spirit). The Ouroboros is the…
symbol of eternity; there is no beginning nor end, but what appears to the human mind as birth and death
This painting pulses with raw energy—the swirling reds and deep ochres symbolize the eternal cycle of life and transformation. Using acrylic, oil, and tar, I crafted vivid textures that evoke both chaos and harmony. Hang it in your space to awaken a powerful, dynamic force, filling your room with passion and introspection. It invites you to embrace change and the beauty that can be found within life's endless flow.
This painting pulses with raw energy—the swirling reds and deep ochres symbolize the eternal cycle of life and transformation. Using acrylic, oil, and tar, I crafted vivid textures that evoke both chaos and harmony. Hang it in your space to awaken a powerful, dynamic force, filling your room with passion and introspection. It invites you to embrace change and the beauty that can be found within life's endless flow.
Ted Barr
Israel
Credentials
- Major permanent collection
- Established Artist
- International Exposure
- Residency Participant
- Favorited by galleries
- Featured in gallery curations
« The physical body ends in the skin, the mind reaches the stars. »
My practice is rooted in material investigation, where the artwork becomes a site of layered processes unfolding over time.
At the core of my work is industrial cold tar— carrying geological memory. Tar absorbs light, slows movement, and resists clarity, introducing friction into the visual field. When combined with oil, gesso, and pigment, it generates a continuous negotiation between opacity and luminosity, between what is buried and what is revealed.
These dense, absorptive surfaces function as active fields—capable of retaining, resisting, and transforming the materials brought into contact with them. Each work evolves through sequences of action and reaction, of revealing and concealing. The surface becomes an archive of gestures, material events, and temporal shifts.
Central to my work is the notion of layering as a structural condition. Each painting develops through successive strata of material interactions: absorption, oxidation, sedimentation, and reactivation.
At the core of my work is industrial cold tar— carrying geological memory. Tar absorbs light, slows movement, and resists clarity, introducing friction into the visual field. When combined with oil, gesso, and pigment, it generates a continuous negotiation between opacity and luminosity, between what is buried and what is revealed.
These dense, absorptive surfaces function as active fields—capable of retaining, resisting, and transforming the materials brought into contact with them. Each work evolves through sequences of action and reaction, of revealing and concealing. The surface becomes an archive of gestures, material events, and temporal shifts.
Central to my work is the notion of layering as a structural condition. Each painting develops through successive strata of material interactions: absorption, oxidation, sedimentation, and reactivation.
Ted Barr
COL Ouroboros
$46,360
