Nick Weber (painter)

Nick Weber is an American painter based in Springs, New York, on the East End of Long Island. His work includes figurative portraiture and abstraction. His exhibitions have included paintings based on imagery from internet pornography, which received press attention in the late 2000s and early 2010s, and Melting Pot: Friends from Afar, a portrait series depicting immigrants living and working on Long Island's East End.

Weber has also worked in music and film. In 2026, he and his father, filmmaker Eric Weber, co-directed the independent comedy Not Dead Yet, which was selected for the Views From Long Island program of the Hamptons International Film Festival.

Career

Painting

Weber studied at Stanford University from 1989 to 1993. The East Hampton Star reported that he received a B.F.A. from Stanford in 1993. After living in Chelsea for several years, he settled full-time in Amagansett in 2002.

In a 2007 CBS News Sunday Morning report about the artistic history of the Hamptons, Weber was identified as part of a younger generation of painters working in the area. Weber told CBS that he had spent summers in the Hamptons as a child and had become conscious of the region's artistic history at an early age. His work was included that year in the Scope Hamptons Art Fair.

In December 2008, Weber exhibited a series of paintings at Ruffian Gallery in New York City based on still images from internet pornography. Vanity Fair covered the exhibition and noted that Weber also worked as a portrait painter. In May 2011, another exhibition of Weber's sexually explicit oil paintings at a gallery on Manhattan's Lower East Side drew complaints from some parents because the works were visible from near P.S. 42. CBS New York reported on the dispute and identified Weber as the artist whose paintings were displayed.

In 2012, QF Gallery in East Hampton presented Eighteen Years of Painting People, a retrospective exhibition of Weber's portrait work. The East Hampton Star described his method at the time as involving repeated painting, sanding and repainting over extended periods.

Weber later incorporated abstraction into his representational work. In 2024, Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor exhibited a group of his abstract and figurative paintings. Writing about the exhibition in Dan's Papers, Oliver Peterson described a process in which Weber paints an image on plastic, presses the wet image onto canvas and uses subsequent impressions to create layered compositions. Some works were repeatedly painted, sanded and repainted over a period of years.

Melting Pot: Friends from Afar

In the 2020s, Weber began developing a series of portraits of immigrants living and working on the East End. Peterson reported in 2024 that the project grew in part from Weber's experience working for a landscaping company when he was younger, where he worked alongside immigrant laborers from Mexico and Ecuador.

The project was later titled Melting Pot: Friends from Afar. According to Newsday, Weber began the focused series in 2022, after noticing that many of the people he had found compelling as portrait subjects over the years were immigrants. He described the project as a response to negative rhetoric about immigrants and as an attempt to portray people whom he knew through his life and work on the East End.

The portraits are based primarily on live sittings. Newsday reported that Weber generally paints a subject for about an hour, sometimes followed by a second sitting, and may later make minor adjustments using photographs taken during the session. By June 2026, the series consisted of 21 portraits, with additional works planned.

In August 2025, Weber and the portrait series were featured in the "Art Is Life" segment of CNN's First of All with Victor Blackwell. Blackwell introduced the segment as focusing on an artist challenging conventional associations between Hamptons portraiture and wealth, and Weber discussed the origins of the project and his experiences working with immigrant landscapers on the East End.

Later that month, Vanity Fair discussed Weber and the portrait series in a report about the Hamptons' immigrant workforce and concerns surrounding immigration enforcement.

In its June 2026 profile of Weber, Newsday described Melting Pot: Friends from Afar as a series rooted in Weber's relationships with immigrants living on the East End. The article also interviewed several of Weber's subjects about their participation in the project.

Film, music and other work

Weber has also worked in music and comedy. A 2013 profile in The Southampton Press described him as a professional artist and musician and as a member of the Los Angeles-based band Girl Problems. The article focused on a series of comedy webisodes written and performed by Weber and his father, Eric Weber, several of which appeared on Funny or Die.

In 2026, Weber and his father co-directed Not Dead Yet, an independent comedy written by Eric Weber. Deadline reported in March 2026 that filming had been completed and that the cast included Richard Kind, Polly Draper, Paul Raci, Tovah Feldshuh, Bill Smitrovich and Ed German.

In September 2026, The East Hampton Star reported that Not Dead Yet had been selected for the Views From Long Island program of the Hamptons International Film Festival. The newspaper identified Eric and Nick Weber as the film's directors and reported that it was one of two world premieres in that section of the festival.

External links

• Official website

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