Carol Heifetz Neiman
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Carol Heifetz Neiman (1937–1990) was a woman artist who was a member of the feminist art movement of the 1970s. Ms Neiman was a surrealist and a xerox artist. She also created etchings, and worked in pencil, pastels, and mixed media, and was a painter.
Family Life
Carol Marsha Neiman was born in Chicago, Illinois. Her father was a pathologist who served in World War II, and returned home when she was 5 years old. Her mother had studied piano. Her grandmother's father was a first cousin of Jascha Heifetz. Carol had an older brother, Orin, and a younger sister Barbara.
She married at age 20 to Lionel Margolin, a psychoanalyst. They first moved to New York for his residency at Bellvue Hospital, where Ms. Neiman taught 8th grade art class in New York.
They moved to Los Angeles in 1961, had a first child Jessica Margolin in April 1962, a miscarriage in 1965, and a second child, Matthew Margolin, in September 1966.
Professional Life
Neiman began working more seriously in 1965, primarily in oils and pastels. She moved to a studio space in 1968, and in 1972, Neiman founded ArtWest, a co-working collaborative in West Los Angeles that provided studio space for several artists. In 1973, Neiman—as Carol Neiman-Margolin—held a two-woman show with Carol Quint at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) on material from Venice Beach, California.
The LACMA show completed a transition from previous work that was in a style of either realism or modernism to work that was often feminist in subject matter and increasingly surrealist in style. Neiman also had a one woman show at the Brand Museum, integrating details of the physical location with revelations about femininity.
Neiman was an early experimenter in the realm of technology-assisted art, with a series based on color Xerox art combining iterations of xerox and prismacolor pencil.
Neiman also began experimenting with Computer art using a Tandy computer in the late 1980s.
In 1989, Neiman was included in Exposures, Women & Their Art:[1]
[Surrealists] endeavored, according to Breton, to make manifest that certain point for the mind from which life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future, the communicable and the incommunicable, the high and the low cease being perceived as contradictions." Carol Neiman is a contemporary surrealist. Breton's words could serve as a canny description of the mental states depicted in her complex and often unsettling compositions.
Involvement in Feminism
Neiman was involved in events regarding the visibility of women artists. In 1986, Neiman was a co-coordinator of the Women Artist Visibility Event (WAVE).
Neiman was President-elect of the Women's Caucus for Art at the time of her death in 1990 of lung cancer. [2]
http://www.nationalwca.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_artists
- ^ Brown, Betty Ann (1989). Exposures, Women & Their Art. NewSage Press, Pasadena, CA. ISBN 0-939165-11-2.
- ^ "Women's Caucus for Art President History".