Artist Gallery Archives

November Featured Artist

Alex Alampi Jr.

Alex Alampi Jr., a lifelong resident of Southern New Jersey, works in the challenging, but beautiful medium of transparent watercolor. His crisp painting style, with clean translucent washes, creates a masterful combination of realism and painterly technique.

Although Alex enjoys painting a wide variety of subjects from the Delaware Bay region and the rural countryside of South Jersey, where he grew up, his inspiration comes from those who still make a living from the land or water in the traditional manner of their forefathers. A professional artist since 1993, Alex has received many awards for his realistic paintings.

He is a member of the American Society of Marine Artists, American Artists Professional League of NJ, the Riverfront Rennaisance Center for the Arts in Millville, NJ, Gallery 50 in Bridgeton, Ocean City Arts Center, NJ and is a past board member of the Rittenhouse Square Fine Art Association. Alex, and the members of his watercolor class, founded the Salem County Art League. His artwork is in private and corporate collections throughout the United States, Canada and abroad.

Alex Alampi's works are being presented at Artport by the Noyes Museum.

In addition, several works by one of the founders of the Noyes Museum of Art, Fred W. Noyes, are also on display.

Artist Fred Noiyes "Floating Blossoms" Acrylic

Opened in 1983, The Noyes Museum was the vision of local entrepreneurs Fred W. and Ethel (Lindbach) Noyes, Jr. who were avid art and antique collectors. Mr. Noyes was also an academically trained artist and produced many works which reflect his love of South Jersey's natural features. His art and personal collection of vintage bird decoys are now a part of the Museum's vast Permanent Collection of nineteenth to twenty-first century fine and folk art.

The Museum boasts a serene lakeside setting adjacent to the Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge and is located minutes from downtown Atlantic City and dining and shopping at Historic Smithville Village.

In envisioning their museum, the Noyeses hoped to foster greater public awareness and appreciation of the American arts and crafts movement and to emphasize works created by New Jersey artists, past and present. They saw the tradition of American decoy carving as a natural part of this artistic heritage. This vision largely originated from Fred Noyes' interests which centered around his personal training as an artist at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the famed Barnes Foundation, and predilection for duck decoys, which he had begun collecting at an early age.