About Oussama Baalbaki

Oussama Baalbaki is a Lebanese painter whose work explores the relationship between painting and photography. His landscapes, cityscapes, and portraits often blur the line between realism and expressionism, capturing everyday life in emotional as well as physical forms. Baalbaki frequently uses gestural brushstrokes and dreamy color palettes, evoking both the Impressionist tradition and the modern era of social media. He often employs self-portraiture, painting himself in grayscale or with vivid blues, pinks, and yellows, imbuing his works with a sense of melancholy or exhaustion.