A man wearing glasses and a black t-shirt sitting in front of a large black-and-white artwork featuring stacked abstract faces and eyes, on a white wall in a room with a shelf holding vinyl records and a stereo system.

Tarik Ragab

Tarik Ali Ragab, also known as TAR, is an artist and musician. His unique visual art takes the viewer to a dream-like world with cascading colors and surreal creatures, fusing style elements of Lowbrow, Street Art, Pop Culture, and Surrealism as seen in his portfolio at https://www.tarikragab.com. 

As a commissioned artist, Tarik has created murals, painted and carved instruments, airbrushed motorcycle art, real estate sketches, children's book and medical illustrations and he was formerly an airbrush album cover replicator for Tower Records in Oakland, CA. His versatile use of mediums includes acrylics, watercolor, airbrush, collage, Sharpie, and found objects. 

In addition to his visual art, Tarik is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and composer. He co-founded the progressive rock bands MoeTar and Raze the Maze with his wife, Moorea Dickason. His musicianship has been featured in Bass Player magazine and he recently arranged two pieces for Oakland Symphony. You can see him perform around the Rogue Valley, OR and the SF Bay Area. Follow him @tarikragabart on Instagram.

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A colorful abstract painting featuring a stacked arrangement of various cartoonish and surreal objects, including a large purple and blue cat face at the top, geometric shapes, and a caterpillar-like figure at the bottom, with a background of pastel colors and white star-like sparkles.
A colorful, surreal painting of stacked objects with human-like eyes and faces, including a melting ice cream and various patterned bands, against a bubbly, abstract background.

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Tarik Ragab

https://www.tarikragab.com