Eric Dever's mural sized diptych, "October 10th," (48 x 132 in, 121.9 x 335.3 cm, oil on canvas, 2016) is on view in Helsinki, Finland, as part of the U.S. State Department's Art in Embassies program. Photo Gary Mamay. image courtesy Berry Campbell, New York.
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Dever in Helsinki As part of the State Department's Art in Embassies program, paintings by the Water Mill-based artist Eric Dever are on view in the Embassy residence of Ambassador Douglas Thomas Hickey in Helsinki, Finland, in an exhibition organized by Camille Benton. The installation also includes work by Roy Lichtenstein, Gifford Beal, Jessica Snow, Mary Heebner, and Pamela DeTuncq.
Dever in Helsinki
As part of the U.S. State Departmen's Art in Embassies program, paintings by the Water Mill based artist Eric Dever are on view in the Embassy residence of Ambassador Douglas Thomas Hickey in Helsinki, Finland, in an exhibition curated by Camille Benton.
The installation also includes work by Roy Lichtenstein, Gifford Beal, Jessica Snow, Mary Heebner and Pamela DeTuncq.
The Helsinki exhibition features Dever’s mural, an
oil on canvas diptych, titled October 10th,
measuring 48 x 132 inches on loan through 2024.
These paintings are part of a larger body of work—
38 paintings, a selection first exhibited by Berry Campbell, New York in 2109. Additional
paintings are part of notable public collections
including the Parrish Art Museum, Grey
Gallery/New York University Art Collection, Guild
Hall Museum and the Heckscher Museum.
An earlier suite of Dever’s large format paintings,
NSIBTW-40 and NSIBTW-22, was previously
exhibited in the United States Consulate of Hong
Kong and Macau in 2016-19.
“... Dever’s new pictures do not seek to replicate nature, but instead vibrate between representation and abstraction,
a kind of rhythmic dance expressing both what he later recalls in his mind’s eye and, simultaneously, how exhilarated
he feels while he loses himself in nature..." --Gail Levin, PhD, author of Lee Krasner: An Intimate Biography; Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography, and other books
“Works by Eric Dever ask the viewer to ponder the phenomenon of change, an observation on the impermanence and
mutability of life...Dever skillfully manipulates the processes of repetition and cropping to enforce this notion of the
transitory as do his reworked surfaces.” —Philip Verre, director, Hudson River Museum of Art
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Studio view of work in progress, photo Joseph Pintauro 2016, images courtesy the artist.
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