Professor Farber is a practicing artist and designer who actively exhibits, publishes and “screens” her work both in the fine and applied arts. She works in digital and mixed media art, producing online illustration, artist’s books, surface design, and alternative prints. Her artworks have been exhibited extensively in the US and abroad, including the Visual Arts Museum of NYC, Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, the Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey State Museum, Morris Museum, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art - Kansas City, and Franklin Institute of Technology of Philadelphia - and in Computer Art Exhibits in Spain, Australia, Switzerland, England, Italy, Thailand and South Africa. She has been chosen for acceptance in the prestigious SIGGRAPH Art Gallery and Technical Exhibition many times, and included for several years in SIGGRAPH’s Traveling Art Show.
Farber’s work won a place in two sequential years of the International Digital Art Awards on-line and traveling show, which travels throughout Australia, China and the US. Leslie Nobler Farber recently had solo exhibitions at Johnson & Johnson World Headquarters Gallery in New Brunswick, the PCFL Gallery of Franklin Lakes, Leonard J. Hansen Gallery of Englewood, and Gallery Eclectica, all of Bergen County. She has been/will be exhibiting at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Booksmart Studios and several other metropolitan area corporate galleries.
Professor Farber received her BFA from the University of Michigan School of Art, her MA in Computer Graphics from the New York Institute of Technology and her MFA from Hunter College (CUNY). Her work has been published or reviewed in The New York Times, the Star Ledger, SIGGRAPH 95- 2006 International Computer Art & Research Catalogs, Surface Design Journal, DIGITAL SALON/Leonardo (MIT Press), Australian Design '05, and The Review/Midwest USA 2003, in addition to various arts publications. . She spent years designing for the trade and continues to consult on fashion-surface design and illustration. She has won grants and awards from Eurographics, the Noyes Art Museum (NJ), Surface Design Association, and CUNY. Leslie Nobler Farber has also exhibited and lectured widely at art and design schools/programs including Kansas City Art Institute, Rutgers University/Newark, University of Northern Colorado, Wellesley College, Wayne Art Center (PA), and Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She was recently awarded a grant to research and apply her investigation on historical interactive books to digital book design and creation. At William Paterson, she has taught all levels of Computer Paint and 2D Art, Senior Thesis, and 2D Design. |