Kreg Kallenberger Art for Sale at Auction

b. 1950 -

Kreg Kallenberger received a bachelor’s and master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Oklahoma before his career switched to art. In 1972, while working on his graduate degree in ceramics, he became interested in glass. After graduation he established the school’s first glass studio and taught courses in that subject for several years. Kreg Kallenberger uses lead crystal for his work. It provides the optical quality that after being sandblasted, polished, stained and otherwise modified yields a remarkable refractive and reflective ability to cast images upward into the viewer’s eyes as if by magic, depending upon the viewer’s perspective. The painted “landscapes” at the base of a glass wedge seem to flash on and off according to the position of the viewer. Kreg Kallenberger is basically a landscape illusionist or painter using glass as his medium. He has received much critical acclaim and is represented in some three dozen public collections.