Eric Dever: The Warhol Montauk Project
Bridgehampton Museum
March 8-April 20, 2025
Opening March 8th 11am-3pm
The Bridgehampton Museum is delighted to announce our inaugural exhibition of our 2025 calendar year. We are honored to be presenting
"Eric Dever: The Warhol Montauk Paintings & Joel Perlman: Finish and Form". This exhibition marks the first in the museum's initiatives focusing on local artists as well as artists that are part of the Museum's Permanent Collection. This show consists of two artists' work, however we view it as one show that contrasts the practices of two masters of their chosen mediums. The works not only command the galleries that they occupy but speak to each other between the spaces. We invite you to explore, experience, and be enlightened by the works of two artists that The Bridgehampton Museum is honored to host and consider friends. The exhibition opens on March 8th and runs through April 20th. We will host a reception on Saturday March 8, 2025 from 11AM-3PM.
In 2020, Eric Dever was invited to be a project artist at The Andy Warhol Preserve administered by the Nature Conservancy in Montauk, New York. Eleven of the original paintings, The Warhol Montauk Project, are currently on display at the Bridgehampton Museum. The artist took cues from the landscape and the natural world, exploring light sensitivity, shadow and temperature, palpable in these new paintings. Dever also found inspiration in Warhol's Self-Portrait (1966), pairing primary and secondary colors applied onto coarse linen and canvas, a process known as decalcomania. Decalcomania was explored by the Surrealists and are a hallmark of Dever's painting process. Coupled with ample unpainted surface or negative space the paintings themselves at times resemble serigraphy.
Dever has recently exhibited in the U.S. State Department, Art in Embassies program in Helsinki (2022-24), Hong Kong and Macau (2016-19); Nassau County Museum of Art (2024-25) and as an artist resident at the Parrish Art Museum (2021). His paintings are held in the collections of Grey Art Museum/New York University, The Heckscher Museum of Art, Parrish Art Museum and Guild Hall Museum. Dever is currently working towards his fourth exhibit at Berry Campbell Gallery in New York, July/August 2025.
March 8, 2025
