page_title: Carol Heifetz Neiman
section_title: Work
hierarchical_section_title: Carol Heifetz Neiman / Career / Work
caption_attribution_description: English: This is a color xerox and prismacolor piece by Carol Heifetz Neiman. Ms. Neiman was a Los Angeles-based feminist artist of the 1970's and 1980's.
context_page_description: Carol Heifetz Neiman was an American artist who was a member of the feminist art movement of the 1970s, known for her surrealist and xerox art. She also created etchings, and worked in pencil, pastels, and mixed media and was a painter.
context_section_description: In 1965, Neiman worked primarily in oil and pastel.  She moved to a studio space in 1968, and in 1972, Neiman founded Art/West Fine Arts Center, 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, "This Venice," with Carol Quint at the Los Angeles Museum of Natural History on material from Venice Beach, California.
  Prior to the LAMNH show, Neiman's work was shown under her name Carol Margolin at venues including Santa Monica College, Woman's Building, Oklahoma Art Center, Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, Butler Institute of American Art, Kent State University, and the Audubon Artists Society in New York. At that time her work was in the collection of the California State University and Colleges.
  The LAMNH 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. In 1987, Carol Neiman's color Xerox work was in the International Society of Copier Artists' "Bookworks and Prints" exhibition which opened in Bologna and is traveling throughout Italy.
  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: written by Betty Ann Brown and Arlene Raven with photographs by Kenna Love and a Foreword by Alessandra Comini.
  This book featured many prominent women artists: Judy Chicago, Judy Baca,  Cheri Gaulke, Ruth Weisberg, Joyce Treiman, June Wayne, Melissa Zink, Joan Semmel, Jeri Allyn, Ann Page, Jean Edelstein, Nancy Fried, Betye Saar, Laurie Pincus, Kahy Jacobi, Phyllis Bramson, Ellen Berman, Kim Yasuda, Kaylynn Sullivan, Nancy Grossman, Gretchen Lanes, Joanne Brigham, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Madden Harkness, Bibiana Suarez, Lili Lakich, Michiko Itatani, Miriam Schapiro, Deborah Remington, Sylvia Sleigh, Sharon Kopriva, Younhee Paik, Connie Jenkins, Margaret Wharton, Hollis Sigler, Nancy Bowen, Ida Applebroog, Patricia Gonzalez, Cynthia Carlson, Ruth Ann Anderson, Nancy Spero, Nancy Chunn, Susanna Coffey, Dee Wolf, Jere Van Syoc, D.J. Hall, Linda Vallejo, Florence Pierce, and Rachel Rosenthal.
  In 1990, Neiman was a recipient of the Vesta Award from The Woman's Building.
  [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.
caption: Homewrecked Series: What is This Thing Called Love c. 1988, color xerox
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