Barbara Nessim is an artist whose daring and prolific work, spanning six decades, defies narrow categorization. Her artistic production has straddled fine art and illustration, pushing against, and reshaping the boundaries of the often-rigid separation between the two fields. With her artworks on paper informing her commercial illustrations, Nessim always begins with line or color, independent of medium, context or application. Barbara Nessim's work has been shown in prominent museums, galleries and private collections worldwide. Her images have appeared on the covers of magazines such as Time, Rolling Stone, New York Times Magazine and in Newsweek, New York and numerous other publications. In 1980, she embraced the use of the computer, revolutionary at the time. Barbara has taught at SVA, Pratt and Parsons The New School for Design, where she served as Chair of Illustration.