Carol Heifetz Neiman
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Carol Heifetz Neiman was a woman artist
who was a member of the feminist art movement
of the 1970s
. Ms Neiman was a surrealist and a xerox art
ist. She also created etchings, and worked in pencil
, pastels, and mixed media
, and was a painter
.
, 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.
Carol studied as a child at the Otis Art Institute in Chicago and attended Tulane University
in New Orleans. 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.
s. 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:
Neiman was President-elect of the Women's Caucus for Art at the time of her death in 1990 of lung cancer.
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Women artists
Women artists have been involved in making art in most times and places. Often certain certain media are associated with women, particularly textile arts; however, these gender roles in art change in different cultures and communities...
who was a member of the feminist art movement
Feminist art movement
The feminist art movement refers to the efforts and accomplishments of feminists internationally to make art that reflects women's lives and experiences, as well as to change the foundation for the production and reception of contemporary art. It also sought to bring more visibility to women within...
of the 1970s
1970s
File:1970s decade montage.png|From left, clockwise: US President Richard Nixon doing the V for Victory sign after his resignation from office after the Watergate scandal in 1974; Refugees aboard a US naval boat after the Fall of Saigon, leading to the end of the Vietnam War in 1975; The 1973 oil...
. Ms Neiman was a surrealist and a xerox art
Xerox art
Xerox art is created by putting objects on the glass, or image area, of a copying machine and by pressing "start" to making an image. If the object is not flat, or the cover does not totally cover the object, the image is distorted in some way...
ist. She also created etchings, and worked in pencil
Pencil
A pencil is a writing implement or art medium usually constructed of a narrow, solid pigment core inside a protective casing. The case prevents the core from breaking, and also from marking the user’s hand during use....
, pastels, and mixed media
Mixed media
Mixed media, in visual art, refers to an artwork in the making of which more than one medium has been employed.There is an important distinction between "mixed-media" artworks and "multimedia art". Mixed media tends to refer to a work of visual art that combines various traditionally distinct...
, and was a painter
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
.
Family Life
Carol Marsha Neiman was born in ChicagoChicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
, Illinois
Illinois
Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
. 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
Jascha Heifetz
Jascha Heifetz was a violinist, born in Vilnius, then Russian Empire, now Lithuania. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest violinists of all time.- Early life :...
. Carol had an older brother, Orin, and a younger sister Barbara.
Carol studied as a child at the Otis Art Institute in Chicago and attended Tulane University
Tulane University
Tulane University is a private, nonsectarian research university located in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States...
in New Orleans. 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 pastelPastel
Pastel is an art medium in the form of a stick, consisting of pure powdered pigment and a binder. The pigments used in pastels are the same as those used to produce all colored art media, including oil paints; the binder is of a neutral hue and low saturation....
s. 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
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is an art museum in Los Angeles, California. It is located on Wilshire Boulevard along Museum Row in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles, adjacent to the George C. Page Museum and La Brea Tar Pits....
(LACMA) on material from Venice Beach, California.
The LACMA show completed a transition from previous work that was in a style of either realism
Realism (visual arts)
Realism in the visual arts is a style that depicts the actuality of what the eyes can see. The term is used in different senses in art history; it may mean the same as illusionism, the representation of subjects with visual mimesis or verisimilitude, or may mean an emphasis on the actuality of...
or modernism
Modernism
Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes the modernist movement, its set of cultural tendencies and array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society...
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
Xerox art
Xerox art is created by putting objects on the glass, or image area, of a copying machine and by pressing "start" to making an image. If the object is not flat, or the cover does not totally cover the object, the image is distorted in some way...
combining iterations of xerox and prismacolor pencil.
Neiman also began experimenting with Computer art
Computer art
Computer art is any art in which computers play a role in production or display of the artwork. Such art can be an image, sound, animation, video, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, videogame, web site, algorithm, performance or gallery installation...
using a Tandy computer in the late 1980s.
In 1989, Neiman was included in Exposures, Women & Their Art:
[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.
Neiman was President-elect of the Women's Caucus for Art at the time of her death in 1990 of lung cancer.
Art is visible on facebook
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_artists