Leslie Nobler Farber

Associate Professor, Department of Art, William Paterson University

Lifelines

Digital Art

Juliet's Wherefores

Digital Art

These are pieces from 2 recent series (entitled Softwear) addressing current attitudes about the worth of our environment and the people that populate it; they are about my frustrations in this materialistic, competitive, consumer oriented/consumption-crazed nation. Both series begin with photogrphs of our living environments - some urban, some rural. Almost like a Rorshach test, other objects, all articles of clothing start to emerge. Influenced by Pop art and Op art, I built up the fashio references. Comodification rampant in our society; concern over what labels we have, what we buy and what we wear, seeps through the seams and contrasts itself against these simpler, more natural photos of our environment. Concerns that buying, owning, and spending have taken over where community work, giving, sharing the wealth, and saving for the futures of our children should be paramount fuel my creative process. In the end though, I celebrate that our society allows freedom of expression and that this art is free to hang in a public space.

Leslie Nobler Farber recieved her BFA from the University of Michigan School of Art, her MA from the New York Institute of Technology, and her MFA from Hunter College (CUNY). She works primarily in digital and mized media art, and produces graphic arts, surface design, and experimental prints. She has exhigbited extensively both in the US and abroad, including the Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, the New Jersey State Museum, Morris Museum (NJ), Old Main Art Museum (AZ), Franklin Institute and Silicon Gallery of Philadelphia (PA), Visual Arts Museum of NYC, Kemper Contemporary Art Museum (MO), and in Computer Art Exhibits in Spain, Australia, Switzerland, England, Italy, China, and South Africa. Her works are traveling in several international shows: SIGGRAPH Traveling Art Show, which went to South Africa, Italy, and France, among other stops; and two years of the International Digital Art Awards on-line and traveling show, which travels throughout Australia and the US. Lislie Nobler Farber recently had a solo exhibition at the Haworth Municipal Center Galleries, currently has a one-woman exhibition at Gilda's Club of New Jersy headquarters gallery - both in Bergen County, and has upcoming shows at the Arts Guild of Rahway and Johnson & Johnson Corporate Headquarters Gallery in New Brunswick.

Leslie Nobler Farber's work has been shown and published/reviewed in The New York Times, SIGGRAPH 95, 98 and 2001 International Computer Art Gallery, surface Design Journal, DIGITAL SALON/Leonardo (of MIT), and Fiber Arts Design Books 5 and 6. She has own grants and awards through Eurographics, the Noyes Art Museum (NJ) and CUNY. Leslie Nobler Farber has also exhibited and/or lectured at many art and design schools/programs including Kansas City Art Institute, Rutgers University/Newark, Wellesley College, and Minneapolis College of Art and Design. At William Paterson, she has taught Computer Paint and 2D Art, Senior Thesis, Advanced 2D Computer Art, Advanced projects in Computer Art, Computer Art and Design I, and 2D Design.