Noyes Hammonton Location -
"Exposure: Dominik Spolitino" & "Foundation: James Watkinson"

Exhibit Dates: July 1st - September 2nd, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, July 3rd, 5:00 - 8:00 pm
Location: Five South Second Street, Hammonton, NJ 08037

Dominik Spolitino

Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Dominick learned to appreciate the outdoors early in life. He spent time in the outdoors with his family almost from the time that he learned to walk. He was educated at Temple University in Philadelphia, then later continued at Berklee College of Music in Boston. He pursued a successful career as a freelance guitarist, traveling extensively and later settling in the Atlantic City, NJ area where he played in various pit orchestras and eventually led several. He was a sideman on many recordings, where his versatility as a musician served him well. Later he pursued commercial composition as a career, writing music for TV , sports films, and national sports teams.

Out of his love of nature, photography has evolved into a second career. His client list is ever evolving, but to date his photographs have been published by clients in many places including Brazil, Germany, France, Australia and here in the US. He also works with Getty Images and exhibits his work in art galleries throughout the northeast.

His landscape photography is usually done in monochrome and shows the intimate connection that we have to nature by illustrating universal concepts that cross between the impartiality of nature into the realm of subjective human feeling or understanding. Concentrating on smaller scenes, he shows the interactivity of natural elements, and the form and patterns created by motion.

James Watkinson

Much of my work is allegorical, almost all of it has a narrative content. Until the mid 1990's the majority of the pieces were three-dimensional in the form of box construction and assemblage. They usually referenced the forest, not so much the natural landscape, but a metaphoric forest of the mind, a place where everyone find themselves wandering from time to time.

Since then my focus has shifted to drawing while my interest in allegory and the physical world as a place of curious realities remains the same. I begin some of the drawings utilizing a technique similar to the "automatism" of the surrealists. This involves allowing the pencil to move with no pre-conceived notion about what I will draw then actively completing it. Other drawings are the result of ideas triggered by evocative images which I've collected from various sources over the years. I allow those to suggest the image and then begin to draw. As a result of these approaches the finished works appear much like scenes isolated from a story or a dream.


The Noyes Museum of Art was founded in 1983 to collect, preserve and exhibit American fine art, crafts and folk art. An emphasis is on New Jersey artists and folk art forms, reflecting the area's long history, traditions, landscape and culture. It opened its satellite gallery in Hammonton on October 3rd, 2008. The mission of the Hammonton location is to provide additional exhibition space to area artists, market the main museum in Oceanville, NJ and to showcase the museum's permanent collection. The Noyes Museum of Art: Hammonton is open Tuesday through Thursday 11a.m.-6 p.m., Friday & Saturday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. It is closed on Sundays, Mondays and major holidays. The Noyes Museum of Art: Hammonton is located in downtown Hammonton on South Second Street, Hammonton, New Jersey. Admission is free. For more information call (609) 561-8006 or visit http://noyesmuseum.org/hammonton.html