“….Stephen Althouse transforms familiar objects into symbols of human experience and spiritual striving. Wrapped, bound, or shrouded in white cloth, many of his objects create a dialogue between freedom and constraint, flight and imprisonment, death and resurrection…”
The Art Museum of Miami University, Oxford Ohio
From the exhibition Stephen Althouse
“…Althouse’s works are in a distinctive language and a deeply moving mystical spiritual dimension, which penetrates into our subconscious and elicits a response from our innermost being…”
Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Klagenfurt, Austria
From the exhibition Stephen Althouse - Metaphern der Menschlichkeit
“….Lacing his images with visual autobiographical narrative themes that recur and crisscross throughout his work, Althouse has created a unique and mysterious visual language of personal symbols and metaphors….”
The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
From the exhibition Stephen Althouse - Tools and Shrouds
“….Like medieval devotional relics and honorific textiles, Althouse’s tools and shrouds become symbols of power and reverence, engaging the viewer in a diologue about history, humanity, tradition, and spirituality….”
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida
From the exhibition Stephen Althouse - Tools and Shrouds
“…Recapturing his found subjects through the process of photography, he enshrines them in large scale minimalist compositions that transcend the ordinary and turn the everyday into the epic…”
The Art Museum of Miami University, Oxford Ohio
From the exhibition Stephen Althouse
“…They [Althouse’s works] give us a feeling of standing in a long tradition, of being links in an infinite chain; at the same time they confront us with our own mortality…”
Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Klagenfurt, Austria
From the exhibition Stephen Althouse - Metaphern der Menschlichkeit
“…[Althouse’s] prints themselves read as objects with a three-dimensional quality as palpable as the subjects they portray. The two-dimensional image is transfigured…”
Museum of Art, Juniata College, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania
From the exhibition Stephen Althouse - Transfigurations
“….In covering his subjects in shrouds, Althouse seems to be withholding information, dropping clues and raising questions; thereby pushing the drama and mystery of his works to uncharted levels…..”
Atrium Gallery of Art at St. Thomas University
From the exhibition The Shrouds of Stephen Althouse