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 spanned Nessim’s works from the 1960s to the 2000s, and it also included an interview with the artist. All of the hundred artworks shown became part of the V&A's permanent collection. A book of the same title, published by Abrams, was released in February 2013. The V&A display traveled to the Bard Graduate Center Gallery in New York City (9/15/2014 - 1/11/2015), where the curator, Douglas Dodds, vastly expanded the show's scope to occupy 3 floors of the gallery. Nessim also recorded a commentary for many of the works in the exhibition, and this was made available online. Publications Nessim's work has been published in several books, which include: David Galloway, ed. Barbara Nessim: An Artful Life (New York: Abrams / London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 2013) Sketchbook 66 (Nessim & Associates, 2010, ) Barbara Nessim: Black Truths, White Lies : Interactive Installation, Wall Pieces, Projections, Web-casting (Bitforms Gallery, 2003) Sketchbook Selections: 1996-2005 (Nessim & Associates, 2007, ) Barbara Nessim: Random Access Memories : an Interactive Computer Art Exhibition (Sangre De Cristo Arts and Conference Center, 1991) Sketch Book (Barbara Nessim, 1975) External links List of artworks held by the Victoria and Albert Museum References American women illustrators American illustrators Jewish American artists Living people American digital artists Women digital artists 1939 births Pratt Institute alumni