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Barbara Nessim

@barbaranessim.bsky.social

Artist that never stops challenging boundaries, b.1939, New York Instagram @barbaranessim Email list sign up: mailchi.mp/21434c6bf6e3/sign-up-lan…

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Barbara Nessim @barbaranessim.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

A look back at My Compass Is the Line, my solo exhibition at DePaul Art Museum in Chicago earlier this year. It was wonderful to see decades of my work brought together, from drawings and sketchbooks to paintings and computer art 🧭

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Barbara Nessim @barbaranessim.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

I recently joined Pratt Institute’s Oral History Project, reflecting on my time there: from studying Illustration in the 1960s to teaching Visual Concepts (1976–84). In 1977, Strathmore featured one of my classes in an ad celebrating my role as both artist and educator. It was fun🖋️📒

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Barbara Nessim @barbaranessim.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

In 1996, Design Today (Korea) featured my work, including Picture in Picture (1993) and Similar but Not the Same (1991), noting my shift into digital. As I said then: these tools “contain capacities that must be evolved and explored further.”

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Barbara Nessim @barbaranessim.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

A look back to this article about my early digital art work, written by Joanne Austin, “Nessim and the IPS 2: A Creative Collaboration," published in ADWeek in February, 1983.

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Barbara Nessim @barbaranessim.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

A look back to this article about my early digital art work, written by Elinor Craig, “Barbara Nessim: 'Arc' Angel Marries Art to Computer Technology," published in MacWeek Graphic Arts on May 17, 1988.

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Barbara Nessim @barbaranessim.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

In 1970 I worked with Caterine Milinaire on a series of fashion spreads published in the New York Magazine. Looking back I always smile on how different my creation looks from "fashion," with surrealism figures living among them. "The Fluids of Spring" Illustrator: Barbara Nessim

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Barbara Nessim @barbaranessim.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

A photo of me in my studio back in the 90s (perhaps?). Behind me is a copy of my 1986 poster for “Women and Technology conference” at the Women's Studio Workshop. The poster was created on a Mac Plus, Xerox printed, and colored using silkscreen.

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Barbara Nessim @barbaranessim.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Delighted to see that IDEA magazine keeps such a rigorous digital archive! Found my Computer Heads that made it to their 1984 issue cover! www.idea-mag.com/en/idea_maga...

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IDEA No.182 | IDEA Magazine - international graphic art and typography

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Barbara Nessim @barbaranessim.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

My early computer work, Hand Memory (1990), is on the cover of VERBUM magazine, vol 4.3 published in the winter of 1990/1991. Hand Memory was first made in 1986 in Japan on an NEC computer, and then printed with a machine that was the prototype of inkjet printers.

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Barbara Nessim @barbaranessim.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Hello––my favorite word, as it opens the conversation that leads to interesting happenings... Hello, 1991 👋 Digital drawing printed on paper, mounted on board, and colored with pastel.

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