Zeina Baltagi

Bodies develop histories; they are tangible vessels that manifest consciousness. Baltagi's work endures a similar process, beginning with a substrate and acquiring multiple layers over time. Hand-made papers bearing images, textures and flaws, receive ideas and actions made visible. Baltagi uses materials that hold collected experiences with mobility. Such as: gas station paperwork, physical therapy worksheets, x-rays, journal entries, basketball courts, mobility aids, her car tires and seats. Sometimes, the processes can yield chaotic results and precede the sought after transformation of materials. Distressed yet precious, the remnants of the artist's labor-intensive process function as documents of mobility and reify the process of transformation.

Zeina Baltagi is an interdisciplinary artist and educator.

Upon graduation from California State University, Northridge with a B.A. in printmaking in 2013, Baltagi co-founded the Valley Print Studio with artist Miles Lewis in Woodland Hills. She currently teaches classes at LA Music and Art School, in East L.A. You can also find her teaching workshops at Camera Obscura Ocean Front Residency in Santa Monica for January and February of 2015.

Baltagi recently exhibited work in Biomythography curated by Jessica Wimbley and Chris Christian at Claremont Graduate University. In September 2015, she will be exhibiting in the second installment of Biomythography?s at California Lutheran University, and co-curating with A. Laura Brody, Opulent Mobility (re-imagining mobility), at California State University, Northridge.