Stan Olthuis

Untitled 2, 2022, upcycled bicycle tube on charred wood frame
About the Artist:
Stan Olthuis is a Canadian multi-disciplinary visual artist based in Peterborough, Ontario. His current work is the culmination of an ongoing curiosity with relationships between people and objects. The results are minimalist, engaging, and playful with spatial tension and interaction of abstract shapes and colour that are powered by a palette altered by recent years living in Mexico.
Stan is unbiased to materials. Concept and process drive his work. He currently uses workman’s trowels, power tools, house paint and found objects to make paintings, wall sculptures and interactive pieces that welcome the viewer’s involvement.
His formal art education started in Chicago under Dutch Henrik Krijger, a celebrated master printmaker, type designer, painter and sculptor. Early influences on Stan’s development were diverse: Salvador Dali, Willem de Kooning, Claes Oldenburg and Robert Rauschenberg. He earned his degree, with special mention, in Experimental Arts from the Ontario College of Art. There he studied under artists such as printmaker Fred Hagan, Painters Eleven artists including Tom Hodgson and conceptual artist Tom Dean. He was co-creator of the content and the creative producer for UNCEDED: Voices of the Land, Canada’s groundbreaking immersive multi-media exhibit representing Douglas Cardinal and Indigenous architects at the 2018 Venice Biennale for Architecture in Venice, Italy.
He is represented by Gagné Contemporary and has selected works available through the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), and Motokawa Gallery in Japan.Stan continues to expand his repertoire of materials addressing our relationship to one another and the world around us.

Studio: interior of Stan Olthuis’ studio
Exhibitions
Stephanie Ford Forrester, Northland Harmony, 2022 textile, painted cotton & batiks
Selections: 39th Annual Kawartha Autumn Studio Tour
Jul 8, 2023 to Oct 1, 2023
Miguel Hernandez Autorino, Why I Left, 2022, oil on canvas KAST 2022 Selections Exhibition
Kawartha Autumn Studio Tour: Selections
Jul 9, 2022 to Oct 2, 2022
Bronson Smith - All about Art Online Auction 2021
It’s All About ART Online Auction Preview
Oct 21, 2021 to Nov 21, 2021
Installation view of KAST Selections exhibition. From Left: Paul Nabuurs, Bronson Smith, David Hickey
Selections: 37th Annual Kawartha Autumn Studio Tour Exhibition
Jul 22, 2021 to Oct 3, 2021