The Memory Project: Installation by Artist Rosalyn Jacobs

This unique documentary tells the story of Roz Jacobs, a Holocaust survivor and a New York City-based painter who lives part of the year in south France. The film, presented parted into 9 "windows", each shows different content, explores in this original mode Jacobs life during the Holocaust and her art today. She has created a series of paintings and works on paper based on Jean Ingres’ "The Turkish Bath." In France she paints local landscapes. Rosalyn, whose works exhibited in galleries and museums in the US, France, England, Israel, Germany, Russia and Japan, began her formal study of art at Binghamton University. Later her primary influence was Norman Raeben who taught at Carnegie Hall Studios and studied with American artists R. Henri, G. Luks and J. Sloan and was the youngest son of the Yiddish writer Sholom Aleichem. With roots in European painting, the American Ashcan School and Modern Masters Jacobs re-invents traditional forms with a personal and painterly vernacular.