Stan Olthuis

I am a student of process focusing on energy, gesture and time. I have made art all my life and at the core is my love for drawing. I was born in Neerlandia, Alberta, Canada and now live and work in Peterborough, Canada. I am grateful to be an award winning, internationally collected artist, I am represented in Toronto by Abbozzo Gallery and in Japan by Motokawa Gallery. I exhibit regularly. My most recent award was received from the Ontario Society of Artists 2014 Open Juried Exhibition.
My current work takes inspiration from the city streets. I'm fascinated with unexpected beauty that emerges from time's harsh effects on surfaces. They become worn and weathered, then layered by random human interferences. Evidence of invisible energy that is symbolic of our life experience.
My work process may include use of house paint, artist mediums and street poster remnants - whatever serves my purpose - then introducing these materials to each other on a common plane. I generally work on wood surfaces that can withstand the execution delivered with tradesmen's trowels, scrapers, and sometimes power tools. The strategic starting point, however, is always the drawing.

Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Canada
Graduated Experimental Arts Program

2019 ‘Proximity II’, Solo Exhibition, Abbozzo Gallery, Canada, November 2019
2018, Group Show, Abbozzo Gallery, Toronto, Canada, November 2018
2018 ‘Proximity’, Solo Exhibition, Evans Contemporary – Star X Gallery, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada July 2018
2018 ‘Stripes’, BG Gallery, Santa Monica, California, May 2018
2017 2017 Member’s Exhibition of Selected Works’ J.D. Carrier Gallery, Toronto. Nov
8 – Dec 4
2017 ‘Echos of Laughter’, Benitto’s, Puerto Vallarta, México, January
2016 ‘UNFOLDING - REVELATIONS’, Peninsula, Puerto Vallarta, México, Nov
2016 ‘UNFOLDING’, Peninsula, Puerto Vallarta, México, July
2015 ‘UNFOLDING’, Salón Galería Atelier, Guadalajara, México, July 31 to August 20
2014 Abbozzo Gallery, Toronto. December 4 - 31
2014 ‘Game’ Ontario Society of Artists 141st Juried Exhibition, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto. Apr 1 - 25 - AWARD
2014 ‘OCADU Alumni Assoc. Juried Exhibition’, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto. April 3 - 6
2014 'Stan', Gallery Takechi, Kumamoto-shi, Japan (Solo) March 20 - 30
2013 'Three Friends',Three Views, Spazio Dell ‘Arte, Toronto
2013 'True Nature', MJG Gallery, Toronto, ON
2013 'Abstract Implications 3 Part II', Project Gallery, Toronto, ON
2013 'Abstract Impl...