Eric Dever





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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.
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 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 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 2019. Additional paintings are part of notable public collections including Grey Gallery/New York University Art Collection, Parrish Art Museum, 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


“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

Studio view of work in progress, photo Joseph Pintauro 2016, images courtesy the artist.
Flowers and blossoming trees within a 3.6 mile radius of Dever's studio in Water Mill, New York, are sampled and collaged, forming the scaffolding for larger paintings. This activity also parallels the distance and collection of pollen by bees whose hives are located in Dever's studio garden.


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