(b Safed, Palestine [now Zefat, Israel], 1927). Israeli draughtswoman. She studied drawing in Tel Aviv with David Hendler whom she later married. In 1956 she won the Dizengoff prize and in 1957 had her first solo show at the Tel Aviv Museum. This had a strong impact on younger Israeli artists who saw it as a contrast to the contemporary, brightly coloured works of the New Horizons group. Uri exhibited with the 10+ group around Raffie Lavie, founded in 1965, which reacted against the New Horizons style and prepared the way for the developments of the 1970s. Her drawings are mostly in black chalk, very sparely used, taking landscape as the starting point. The result is near abstract gestural works such as Landscape (1960; Jerusalem, Israel Mus.). She also made limited use of coloured chalk on occasion, as in Drawing (1967-8; Jerusalem, Israel Mus.). In addition her later work included purely abstract drawings, such as Drawing (1981; Amsterdam, Stedel. Mus.), as well as strongly coloured abstract works such as Drawing (1984; Tel Aviv, Givon A.G., see 1984 exh. cat., p. 6).
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