Congratulations to first time Art in Embassies artist, Eric Dever!
His
paintings are now living in the U.S. Consul General Hong Kong
exhibition, featuring paintings titled NSIBTW-40 and NSIBTW-22, oil on
canvas and linen, each measuring 72 x 72 inches. These paintings are
part of a larger body of work—24 paintings, a selection first exhibited
in 2014 by Berry Campbell Gallery, New York; followed by an installation, The Rose Chapel, at Kaiser Gallery, Molloy
College, Rockville Centre, New York. Additional paintings are part of
notable public collections including the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill,
New York, Grey Gallery/New York University Art Collection, and Guild
Hall Musuem, East Hampton, New York.
Painting exclusively with
black, red and white for over 10 years, Dever’s palette represents
qualities that bind all of existence.
Over time, I have come to
associate this palette with shifting qualities of weight, energy, and
lightness, which are embodied in the rose paintings; some feel like
carved stone, others explosive or very light. The starting point for
this group of paintings, both in its essence, genus, was a rose from my
garden, which I deconstructed, letting the energetic qualities of color,
line, and form emerge.
—Eric Dever, Water Mill, New York, 2015
Dever’s
work was also featured last summer in a lecture by Gail Levin,
Distinguished Professor of Art History, Baruch College and the CUNY
Graduate Center, American Art and India: Cultural Exchange Among Artists
of India and the United States, at the Pollock Krasner House and Study
Center, East Hampton, New York. Upcoming one-artist exhibitions include
Light, Energy and Matter, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles,
California, Summer 2017.
Elemental and exacting, Dever’s paintings make you feel like he invented color.
—Janet Goleas, Blinnk, East Hampton, New York
The
Radical nature of Dever’s proposal has an overwhelming sincerity, a
beautiful correlation between that alchemic notion of ex nihilo
creation. —Rrose, Maquinariadelanube, Barcelona, Spain
Dever is a must-see…His rose breaking thru metallic black fills you with energy.
—Gail Sheehy, author, journalist, and lecture
