The Art of Recycled ARTIFACTS
BY BOBBIE WALLINGER
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Question: What do a retired Child Welfare Division Chief, a university Chief Information Officer and a Patient’s Rights Advocate have in common?
Answer: An uncommon ability to create fine art pieces from recycled materials.
Denny Ah-Tye
Denny Ah-Tye, retired from a career spanning more than three decades at San Joaquin County Human Services Agency, currently spends his free hours in his studio located at the Port of Stockton, working in mixed-media to create collages of incredible depth and focus.
His most outstanding piece, currently being sold by Tidewater Gallery, is “New York Illusion,” constructed from various items he collected while on a trip to the Big Apple. In addition to that piece, Ah-Tye has mastered the concept of “assemblage” with his abstract piece, “The Election Recycle.”
Larry Frederick
Like Ah-Tye, artist Larry Frederick, Chief Information Officer at the University of the Pacific, is displaying his work locally at the Tidewater Gallery, as well as at the Creative Crafter’s Gallery. His focus to turn unesthetic objects into new artistic renditions is both exciting and challenging.
Using a wide range of old lamps, carpenter’s tools, musical instruments and transmission gears, Frederick has managed to capture the imagination of his buyers by creating lamps that provide not only light, but enlightenment as well.
Rex Buethe
Rex Buethe, a Patient’s Rights Advocate in the San Joaquin Public Conservator’s office is the only one of our featured artists with a degree in commercial art. Studying at Sacramento State University, Buethe re-kindled his love of his craft while working on the restoration of The Old Victorian Inn, a bed and breakfast he and his wife operated here in Stockton.
It was then he became enamored with creating sculpture from “found” materials originally designed for some more utilitarian purpose.
Answer: An uncommon ability to create fine art pieces from recycled materials.
Denny Ah-Tye
Denny Ah-Tye, retired from a career spanning more than three decades at San Joaquin County Human Services Agency, currently spends his free hours in his studio located at the Port of Stockton, working in mixed-media to create collages of incredible depth and focus.
His most outstanding piece, currently being sold by Tidewater Gallery, is “New York Illusion,” constructed from various items he collected while on a trip to the Big Apple. In addition to that piece, Ah-Tye has mastered the concept of “assemblage” with his abstract piece, “The Election Recycle.”
Larry Frederick
Like Ah-Tye, artist Larry Frederick, Chief Information Officer at the University of the Pacific, is displaying his work locally at the Tidewater Gallery, as well as at the Creative Crafter’s Gallery. His focus to turn unesthetic objects into new artistic renditions is both exciting and challenging.
Using a wide range of old lamps, carpenter’s tools, musical instruments and transmission gears, Frederick has managed to capture the imagination of his buyers by creating lamps that provide not only light, but enlightenment as well.
Rex Buethe
Rex Buethe, a Patient’s Rights Advocate in the San Joaquin Public Conservator’s office is the only one of our featured artists with a degree in commercial art. Studying at Sacramento State University, Buethe re-kindled his love of his craft while working on the restoration of The Old Victorian Inn, a bed and breakfast he and his wife operated here in Stockton.
It was then he became enamored with creating sculpture from “found” materials originally designed for some more utilitarian purpose.