Stephen Althouse

Represented by Pucker Gallery since 2023

BORN: 1948 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania
RESIDES: Rebersburg, Pennsylvania

Stephen Althouse grew up close to farmers and their work with earth and animals. During his teens and twenties, he explored the primordial realm of labor by working arduous jobs at a stone quarry, on the railroad, in concrete construction, and in road building. Through his interactions with fellow workers, he became sensitive to a culture of people who approach a life of physical labor with the same humility and compliant determination as countless generations before them. During these formative years, Althouse also began to question our species' predisposition for making war. He embeds humankind’s different attributes and the historical ties of humanity, labor, and warfare into much of his artwork.

Throughout his life, Althouse has continued to foster his intrigue for people and diverse cultures through extensive traveling, living, and working abroad in South America and Europe. He has encountered foreign environments, friendships, and personalities which, like his times working in the quarry or on the railroad, opened his eyes to the often-overlooked person and the unfathomable diversity of life; while impossible to describe in words, the insight gained by such encounters have transpired into his unusual visual expressions found in his art. He made Miami, Florida his home base for thirty years where he worked as an artist as well as Distinguished Professor of Fine Art at Barry University, and he regularly taught courses and lectured on his art in France, England, Spain, Ecuador, and the Galapagos Islands. From 2003 to 2004, Althouse lived in Belgium as an artist-in-residence at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Liège through a Fulbright Research Fellowship and concurrent German grants from Hahnemühle papers and Epson printers. Since leaving academia, he now resides in central Pennsylvania where he is reconnecting with his georgic roots, formulating new ideas, and finding creative inspiration from the surrounding Amish community.

Althouse received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Sculpture from the University of Miami, Florida, and his Master of Fine Arts degree in Sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University.

by Maya Huchla, Biographer

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