Eric Dever: The Warhol Montauk Project

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. 

Press about this exhibition

• The Southampton Press