The cow has visitors./Barbara Nessim (USA)1997,08,13



Comment:

Thinking about time
Thinking about nature
Thinking about space
Inner and Outer


Bio:


Barbara Nessim's career spans 3 decades.  
As an artist she has contributed to the fields of fine art, illustration and education. 
 
She is an internationally known artist whose paintings and drawings are part of numerous public
and private collections and have been shown in museums and galleries worldwide. 
Her work is in the permanent collection of The Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.  
She has also exhibited in the Kunst Museum in Dusseldorf, the Louvre in Paris 
and at the Centro Colombo Americano in Bogota, Colombia among others. 
Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine's Sunday Magazine was one of the first
publications to do a cover and six page feature on her electronic art in 1984. 

In 1991 she had one of the first interactive art solo exhibitions in
Soho NYC.  Random Access Memories (RAM) included a work where each
participant helped create and took away a printed unique mini
sketchbook.  

In July of 1992 she was appointed Chairperson of the Illustration
Department at Parsons School of Design in New York.  She has also taught
in the Masters of Fine Art Computer Arts Program at the School of Visual
Arts.  Since 1980 she has been doing electronic art created on the
computer and has lectured widely on the subject.

Her drawings have appeared in hundreds of publications over the years
such as L.A.Style, New York Magazine, Time, Esquire, and Newsweek. She
has been commissioned to illustrate the covers of many publications
including Time, Rolling Stone and most recently (June 29, '97) 
the cover of the New York Times Sunday Magazine section.  
In addition to her full work schedule, Nessim finds time to participate in conferences 
and seminars as well as juries and curating 




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