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A display of the artist’s work, Barbara Nessim: An Artful Life, will be shown at the V&A from 15 February to 19 May 2013. The show will present around 80 works that cover her output from the 1960s to the 2000s. It includes sketchbooks, prints, drawings, photographs, computer graphics, ceramics, artist’s books and other printed publications.
Martin Roth, V&A Director said
“The V&A is delighted to acquire such a fabulous range of Barbara’s work, from the 1960s to the present day. The highly distinctive drawings and watercolours she produced in the 60s and 70s are a wonderful evocation of the New York art, fashion and music scene. Her early computer graphics will greatly enhance the Museum’s growing collection of digital art and design, whilst her fashion illustrations will certainly appeal to a wide range of visitors.”
Coinciding with the display at the V&A is a new book, Barbara Nessim: An Artful Life, edited by the art writer and critic, David Galloway, to be published by Abrams in early 2013. The book explores her versatile career with essays by a dozen international authors, including the fashion critic Elyssa Dimant, the German art historian Christoph Benjamin Schulz, and Douglas Dodds, senior curator of the display at the V&A. Friends and colleagues such as Gloria Steinem, Milton Glaser, Ali MacGraw and Zandra Rhodes have also contributed their own reminiscences.
A newly commissioned film recorded in Nessim’s New York studio will also be available on the V&A Channel – www.vam.ac.uk
Internationally-renowned artist, illustrator and educator Barbara Nessim has been a vital contributor and influential trendsetter in the art world over the past several decades. With an extensive resume of accomplishments and a portfolio of work that go beyond one's ability to mention, Barbara has always been visionary in her thinking, and unprecedented in her creativity.
Inspired by her mother, a clothing designer, Barbara put herself through college by supporting herself as a freelance fashion illustrator in the Garment Center. After receiving her education at Pratt Institute in the Department of Illustration and Fine Art, she was quickly recognized for the freshness and uniqueness of her work, and for being one of the few female freelance illustrators of her time. While she initially designed everything from shoes and apparel to textiles, Barbara ultimately became more selective in her creations, and more sophisticated in her style.
Barbara's passion for her work and desire to continually bring more to her craft set the stage for what would become a long and illustrious career that greatly influenced other artists along the way. Over the years, her paintings and drawings in her distinctive signature avant-garde style have not only donned the walls of prominent museums and galleries, but have been part of numerous public and private collections around the globe.
In 1980, Barbara was known for breaking another important mold in the execution of illustration art by embracing the use of the computer, a topic upon which she has frequently lectured to audiences worldwide. Never short of inspiration, she attributes the ongoing creativity in her work to her foundation as a fine artist, and relies solely upon her earlier sketchbooks to generate new ideas.
Among the many showcases of Barbara's work include:
• Eventi Hotel, New York City
• DFN Gallery, New York City
• Sienna Gallery, Lenox, MA
• The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England (permanent collection)
• The Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. (permanent collection)
• The Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA (permanent collection)
• Lund konsthall, Lund, Sweden (permanent collection)
• Szepmuveszeti Museum in Budapest, Hungary (permanent collection)
• The Kunst Museum in Dusseldorf
• The Louvre in Paris
• The Centro Colombo Americano in Bogota, Colombia (solo exhibition)
• Publications and covers of Time, Rolling Stone and Frenkfurter Allgemeine,
among others
In addition to her status as world-famed artist, Barbara has also lent her talents in the classroom at the School of Visual Arts in New York, where she taught in the MFA Computer Arts Program, and at Parsons The New School for Design as a Professor in the Illustration Department. Barbara also served as the Chairperson of Illustration at Parsons from 1992-2004. Barbara was recently appointed the first Artist's Laureate by the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA.
Today Barbara's main focus is her large-scale work on several commissions for public spaces in New York City buildings, most recently the Eventi Hotel at 851 6th Avenue in Manhattan's North Chelsea neighborhood.
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Early life
Nessim was born to Jewish parents in New York City in 1939.Motivated by art from a young age, she studied at the Pratt Institute in New York from 1956 to 1960. Like her contemporary, Jacqui Morgan, she briefly worked in textile design after graduating from Pratt, then decided to turn her efforts towards illustration work. Nessim's childhood ambition was to be an artist, but it was only after befriending Robert Weaver and receiving encouragement to enter the New York Society of Illustrators show in 1960 that she became a professional artist.
Career
Nessim was one of very few full-time professional women illustrators working in the United States during the 1960s; others include Jacqui Morgan and Lorraine Fox. However, she was able to carve a niche for her work in the competitive graphic design field, illustrating record album covers, calendars, and magazine covers for major publications such as Rolling Stone, Time, Ms, New York Magazine, The Boston Globe, Show and Audience.She established her own graphic design firm in 1980, Nessim and Associates, with a group of fellow illustrators to work on corporate projects.
Nessim produced many works in ink and watercolor, later using computer graphics, and has been teaching computer art since 1980. Nessim has taught at the School of Visual Arts, Fashion Institute of Technology, and Pratt Institute, all in New York.
Her works have been exhibited worldwide, including at the Kunst Museum and The Louvre. The Museum of Modern Art in Sweden, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest all hold work of hers in their permanent collections.
Digital art pioneer
Barbara Nessim was one of the first artists to seriously pursue digital art and illustration. In 1980 she was invited to participate in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Visual Language Workshop (VLW), a program designed to carry out experiments for advanced graphics research. Nessim was unable to attend the VLW, but her conversations with MIT staff about the possibilities of computer generated art intrigued her. As a result, she searched for a computer to work on near her home in New York City. Nessim found a sympathetic sponsor at Time Incorporated's Time Video Information Services (TVIS). Time had computers, and invited her to be an Artist in Residence. She was “allowed to work on the computers from 5 p.m. to 9 a.m., and went there for a period of two years until 1983.” Using manuals to teach herself to navigate the complicated programs, she became proficient at creating computer art and assembled an impressive body of digital work. Since then Nessim has used the computer in her work as an artist, illustrator, teacher, and innovator. Digital technology has provided new ways to create and exhibit her work, including “35mm slides, CIBA-chromes, videos, early non-archival inkjet prints, Polaroid, as well as pastel hand-colored tiled larger artworks, 3-D Stereo-pair works, very large modular works hand-painted with acrylics, unique archival inkjet prints printed on canvas, and ‘randomly’ moving software art shown on a wall-mounted monitor.” Her 1991 Random Access Memories (RAM) show at the Rempire Gallery in NYC had, as part of a the larger exhibition, an installation where the participants could produce and take away their own unique catalog of Nessim's work. it predicted the widespread digital "print on demand" industry that is changing the nature of publishing as we know it. In 2009 Nessim launched The Model Project, a “cutting edge view of fashion’s hold on women” expressed in a series of large scale collages printed digitally on aluminum panels.[9] The two-year project was a collaboration with fashion photographer Karl Rudisill, who photographed a fashion model in Nessim’s Manhattan studio loft. Nessim deconstructed the images, “juxtaposing cutouts of lips, hair, breasts and legs with jewelry and clothes to re-examine prevailing ideas about desire, beauty, fashion and commerce.” Nessim’s permanent installation, Chronicles of Beauty (an extension of The Model Project) was commissioned for New York City’s Eventi Hotel. Its central piece, A Current Past, is a 28' x 12' digital print on aluminum. Although she is smitten with digital technology, Nessim has not abandoned hands-on painting and drawing skills. She has employed both traditional and digital methods to produce her work: “I love working hands-on and I love working with the computer. They are two very different things. It would all depend on the approach I wanted to take for each artwork I was doing.” She acknowledged the difficulties illustrators have faced in adapting to the technology in a 2003 interview: “it is challenging to be constantly learning something new all the time. It is a bottomless pit. But that said, using new cutting edge tools and media opens up the creative process to new possibilities you cannot achieve using traditional methods.”
In early 2013, the Victoria & Albert Museum opened an extensive retrospective entitled Barbara Nessim, An Artful Life. The exhibition spans Nessim’s works from the 1960s to the present, and all eighty artworks shown will become part of the V&A's permanent collection. A book of the same title, published by Abrams, will be available in March 2013.
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