Deborah Gottheil Nehmad (born 1952) is an American artist and attorney.

Life

Nehmad was born in

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. Deborah Nehmad received a Bachelor of Arts from

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in 1974 and a Juris Doctor degree (J.D.) from Georgetown University Law Center in 1982. After graduating, she practiced law and worked in politics (including the

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White House). In 1984, her legal work brought her to

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. Due to a back injury, she phased out her legal practice and began taking art courses at the Honolulu Academy of Arts and the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She eventually matriculated at the latter, receiving an MFA in printmaking in 1998. Nehmad produced primarily abstract prints employing various techniques, often including

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. Since the mid 2010s, she has been creating works that deal with the issue of gun violence in the United States.

Collections

The

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(Wellesley College), the

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, the

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(Los Angeles), the

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, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the

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(Hanover, New Hampshire), the

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, the Smith College Museum of Art, and the Yale University Art Gallery are among the public collections holding work by Deborah Nehmad.

References

* Morse, Morse (ed.), ''Honolulu Printmakers'', Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2003, , p. 88 * Morse, Marcia and Allison Wong, ''10 Years: The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center'', The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, 2006, , p. 88

Footnotes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nehmad, Deborah Artists from Honolulu 1952 births American women printmakers Printmakers from Hawaii 20th-century American painters 20th-century American women artists American lawyers Living people 20th-century American printmakers 21st-century American women artists