Eric Dever (born 1962) is an American painter. His paintings are held in the collections of Grey Art Gallery/New York University, the Parrish Art Museum, Guild Hall Museum and the Heckscher Museum of Art. Dever has exhibited throughout the United States since the early 1990’s, including exhibitions in Paris, Helsinki and Hong Kong. Dever is represented by Berry Campbell Gallery, New York.

"...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….Dever doesn’t paint nature, he paints his experience of it.

In Dever's Southampton studio, set in the picturesque garden that he himself designed…I found myself recalling the garden of Claude Monet (1840-1926), in Giverny, France, which inspired the late paintings of waterlilies that famously disregarded boundaries and moved toward abstraction. Critics have long since linked Monet’s late “all-over painting” to Pollock’s abstractions. Now Dever continues in this gestural tradition..."

--Gail Levin, Ph.D, is the author of Lee Krasner: A Biography; Edward Hopper: An Intimate Biography; and other books.