Yeshiva University Museum host Laura Murlender exhibition

New York City - Yeshiva University Museum host an exhibition of works by contemporary artist Laura Murlender.

A native of Buenos Aires, Murlender was abducted by Argentinean military government officials at the age of 19, and held in solitary confinement for 11 days, seeing only darkness. "Liberated by mistake", as revealed in recently found documents, she arrived in Israel.

She graduated from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem from the Fine Arts and Photography deparments and followed and followed postgraduate studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, as recipient of the French Government grant.

Murlender work employs photography and mixed media. It has been exhibited in venues such as the Museum of Latin American Art-Molaa, CA; Yeshiva University Museum and Makor Gallery, New York; the Pompidou Cultural Center and the Grand Palais, Paris; Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires; Museum of Contemporary Latin American Art, La Plata and Galeria Vasari in Argentina. Murlender was awarded prizes: Helena Rubinstein Foundation, America-Israel Foundation, Samuel Prize of Canada, and Photography prizes: Ilford, London; Agfa and Brenner, Jerusalem.

Laura Murlender is a Buenos Aires and New York-based artist.
Her work is included in public collections such as the Museum of Contemporary Latin-American Art in La Plata, Argentina and the Bass Museum of Art in Miami, as well as private collections in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Israel and Latin America. In 2007 she was an artist in residency at Makor Program in New York City.

This exhibition is sponsored, in part, by the Friends of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. "From Darkness to Light" is on exhibition through November 4, 2007.

Yeshiva University Museum at the Center for Jewish History - 15 West 16th Street (between 5th & 6th Aves), New York City - (212) 294-8330 : www.yumuseum.org