Jeff Davis is a generative artist and Chief Creative Officer at Art Blocks whose minimalist, code-based compositions are built from whole-number ratios, arithmetic sequences and color theory. He trained as a painter and printmaker at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and published textbooks on design and color theory before releasing generative editions on SuperRare, Rarible and, in late 2020, Art Blocks.
In the 1990s Davis developed hard-edged geometric compositions digitally before executing them as paintings, silkscreens and collages, and after discovering Processing around 2010 he began using code, rather than the Excel spreadsheets he had relied on earlier, to generate the compositions himself. He cites Sol LeWitt's Incomplete Open Cubes and Josef Albers's color theory as influences, and favors whole-number ratios and integer sequences over noise functions, keeping his algorithmic spaces deliberately narrow. He has published two textbooks, Foundations of Color (2015) and Foundations of Design (2016), and in 2025 the retrospective book Color: 1995–2025 accompanied an exhibition at Artverse in Paris surveying three decades of his work from painting and printmaking to digital and algorithmic pieces centered on color theory.
