Her girlhood home was surrounded by colorful gardens, and it was those memories that kept her going.” “I think when people visit the gallery and see her paintings, she wants them to be struck not by her story but by the colors.

“Sidi calls herself a ‘colorist’ - her art is abstract and full of bright colors,” Rice explained. There, she taught art in inner-city Los Angeles schools for more than two decades. She went on to earn both an MA and MFA from Ohio State, and taught art in Columbus Public Schools until 1972, when she moved to Southern California. and settled in Columbus, where she enrolled at Ohio State and earned a bachelor’s degree in art education, studying painting and graphics with well-known artists Hoyt L. Though the rest of her family perished at the hands of the Nazis, Gluck relocated to the U.S. “In Auschwitz, Sidi was pulled from the (execution) line at the very last minute. “Sidi told me when she was a little girl, a palm reader visited their home and told her she was going to live a very long life,” Rice said. As the war began to rage, her older brother fled to a safe house, while the rest of her family was sent to Auschwitz. Gluck’s story starts in Czechoslovakia, where she was born in 1922 and grew up in a well-off family living near the border of Hungary. The show’s title draws from her physician father’s final words spoken to her en route to Auschwitz in 1944: “Remember … nobody can take away what is in your head.” The show will feature dozens of Gluck’s post-Holocaust oils and prints in an unforgettable series of colorful and revealing abstracts. 22 exhibition “Sidi Grunstein Gluck: Remember…”. Rice’s gallery, the Alice Rice Gallery in Laguna Beach, will host an exhibition of Gluck’s rarely seen paintings in the June 25 to Aug. The other is Sidi Gluck - painter, art teacher, Auschwitz survivor.

One is Gigi Rice - actress, artist, gallery owner. Two Ohio State alumnae are coming together this summer for an art exhibition in Southern California. Back to news California Exhibition Pairs Actress Gigi Rice and Auschwitz Survivor Sidi Gluck

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