Spotlight on Ohlone
Faculty artist’s work on display
By Elise Leon, Staff writer.
Thursday, October 18, 2007 — Monitor.
K.G. Greenstein's mosaic works featuring dogs and household items are now on display in the President's office.
— Staff photos.
Ohlone College is now displaying the quirky artwork of K.G. Greenstein, a library faculty member at Ohlone, in the office college President Doug Treadway.
“This is the first time that we have artwork by faculty members displayed in an exhibit in Treadway’s office,” said Sarah Zentner, assistant to the president.
Katie Frank, an assistant art professor at Ohlone, decides whose artwork will be used in the President’s office each year by having an exhibition of all the students’ or participants’ artwork.
However, this year she decided to go a different route by using one faculty member’s art.
“Katie Frank usually has a show of student’s artwork but this year, she went with faculty, Greenstein,” Zentner stated.
Particular works by Greenstein that are being displayed include “Extreme Indigestion,” “Artic Manatee,” “Circus Irons A to Z,” “Crime Lab,” “Shame” and “Sometimes an Oven Mitt Is Just an Oven Mitt.”
Greenstein’s mosaics are based on household objects and animals, for instance irons, mitts, dogs and manatees, a departure from mosaics’ Greek origins. Greenstein is a big fan of dogs, hence the “Crime Lab” piece.
Zetner concluded by saying “Traditionally the art shows for each art exhibit for roughly about two months.”
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