Eric Dever

MUSEUM EXHIBITION

MATERIALS SPEAK

On View: April 18th - May 23, 2026
Reception: Saturday, April 18 from 5 to 7pm

The Bridgehampton Museum, Nathanial Rogers House
2539 Montauk Highway, Bridgehampton, New York

“When asked to curate an exhibition for the Bridgehampton Museum, Mary Dinaburg and I wanted to showcase artists working on the East End or who have a relationship to the Bridgehampton Museum.

To this end we wanted a large framework that would be inclusive to show artists practices. We needed a united perspective of intent for the exhibition and felt that by approaching the artwork through their various physical characteristics it would enable viewers to compare the works through their various physical lens of their own physicality.

Thus, the exhibition MATERIALS SPEAK was born.”

—Barbara MacAdam

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Eric Dever, 2024
“Cyclamen I, After Lucian Freud”
Oil on linen, 18 x 24 inches 45.7 x 61 cm
Courtesy Berry Campbell Gallery

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Experience over two centuries of art in one place: “For over 250 years, Long Island has been a fruitful region for artistic creativity. Inspired by the island’s varied scenery and ocean views, artists are near enough to New York City for inspiration but far enough for the perspective of distance.

This exhibition emphasizes three areas: genre and landscape of the Victorian era; the Hamptons trendsetters of the 1950s; and artists achieving national reputations working today.”
— As described by NCMA’s Chief Curator, Franklin Hill Perrell

Plan your visit now at NASSAUMUSEUM.ORG

*B&W Photographs by Susan Tiffen

EXHIBITION

250 YEARS OF ART ON LONG ISLAND
March 21, 2026 – July 12, 2026

“In celebration of America’s 250th anniversary, this landmark exhibition explores how Long Island has reflected and shaped the story of American art. From Revolutionary-era portraiture and folk art to nineteenth-century landscapes, Impressionism, and the bold innovations of Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art, the exhibition highlights how every major art movement found expression here—from Brooklyn to Montauk, Long Island’s natural beauty, coastal light, and close connection to New York City inspired generations of artists and gave rise to thriving art colonies and postwar creative communities. Featuring paintings, decorative arts, and historical objects displayed together in immersive settings, 250 Years of Art on Long Island celebrates the region’s enduring influence and its rich artistic legacy.”—NCMA

slides:
Eric Dever, 2018. “July 11th, Soleil”
Oil on canvas, 24 x 18 inches
Courtesy Berry Campbell, New York

Eric Dever, 2019. “Our Night Can’t Catch Up to Thee”
Oil on canvas, 18 x 24 inches
Courtesy Berry Campbell, New York

Françoise Hardy, Vogue Records 1963

DOCENT STUDIO VISIT

Thank you Gertrude Borchardt and Nassau County Museum of Art docents—always a pleasure to connect and talk together more about painting and plants. So looking forward to the museum’s upcoming exhibitions including:

250 Years of Art on Long Island
March 21, 2026 – July 12, 2026

This landmark exhibition explores how Long Island has reflected and shaped the story of American art. From Revolutionary-era portraiture and folk art to nineteenth-century landscapes, Impressionism, and the bold innovations of Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art, the exhibition highlights how every major art movement found expression here—from Brooklyn to Montauk.

HABITAT LOSS—Mill Creek, Water Mill, New York

The day after a historic winter storm, old trees are felled. The trees themselves, alive, provided winter shelter for numerous owls, birds, squirrels, raccoons, hibernating animals and complete ecosystems—now imperiled. This habitat destruction is to make way for a paved road to a parking lot. The alternative plan supported by the immediate community is to keep these remaining 6 acres wild and open with pathways and trails for ALL living things.

Resources: Audubon Magazine, Winter 2025 or audubon.org

FILM
From 20th Century Studios, “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere” chronicles the making of Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 “Nebraska” album when he was a young musician on the cusp of global superstardom, struggling to reconcile the pressures of success with the ghosts of his past. Recorded on a 4-track recorder in Springsteen’s New Jersey bedroom, the album marked a pivotal time in his life and is considered one of his most enduring works—a raw, haunted acoustic record populated by lost souls searching for a reason to believe. Starring Jeremy Allen White as the Boss, the film is Written for the Screen and Directed by Scott Cooper based on the book “Deliver Me from Nowhere.” by Warren Zanes. “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere” is now steaming.

The painting on the left, Eric Dever “NSIBTW-49” (2012), was included on the set—a representation of material nature expressed in red, black and white hues.

DOCENT TALK

What a pleasure to visit and talk today with the museum education department and well prepared docents about their current exhibition: “Real, Surreal, and Photoreal,” open today – March 8, 2026.

Eric Dever, is a contemporary artist whose vibrant, process-driven paintings explore material, movement and transformation. His painting, Umbrella Pines, Villa Borghese is included in the current exhibition. Drawing inspiration from Surrealist techniques like decalcomania and grattage, pioneered by Max Ernst and Jean Dubuffet, Dever reveals unexpected textures and forms that merge chance with intentional expression.

slides 1-2: docent talk, painting installation. Slide 3: Sculpture Garden, Bruno Lucchesi, “Girl on a Bicycle,” 1965

Museum Hours:
The Mansion
Closed Monday
Tuesday – Sunday 11am to 4:45pm
Last entry is in the 3:30-4 pm ticket time

Arboretum & Sculpture Garden
Daily 9am to dusk

Nassau County Museum of Art
One Museum Drive
Roslyn Harbor, NY 11576
Phone: (516) 484-9338

A BENEFIT FOR VISUAL AIDS
POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE

Berry Campbell Gallery January 24-25th
and online:
https://postcards.visualaids.org

Visual AIDS utilizes art to fight AIDS by provoking dialogue, supporting HIV+ artists, and preserving a legacy, because AIDS is not over.

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Eric Dever 2026. “Copper Beach,” ink and liquid watercolor on paper, 4 x 6 inches.

TALK RESCHEDULED—SNOW DAY
Same time next Sunday 2pm, 21 December

TALK
Eric Dever: To See Through the Garden
Planting and Painting in a Changing Landscape

Rooted in personal experience and ecological observation, artist Eric Dever traces his evolving relationship between painting and gardening in an illustrated talk.
The presentation spans Dever’s initial focus on formal garden structures to an embrace of rewilding and purposeful neglect, as the artist’s studio garden becomes a living collaborator, informing both subject matter and palette. 
Eric Dever is a painter in Water Mill. Coupled with his studio garden and the adjacent watershed, recent artist residencies including the Warhol Foundation/Nature Conservancy-Montauk, have deepened his connection to East Coast landscape.

John Jermain Memorial Library
Sag Harbor, New York

Sunday, December 21, 2025
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Registration is required. There are 30 seats available.

Location: Lower Level Program Room

photo: Laurie Lambrecht 2025, courtesy Berry Campbell Gallery