Meet local artist Jeff Davis whose work centers on digital art creating fascinating artwork that utilizes algorithmic processes.
These algorithms generate beautiful abstractions that suggest forms even referencing architecture and geometric shapes. Striking abstractions explore geometric structures and color relationships through computation and iteration. Davis uses such an intriguing process to create his work, “I write custom software in programming language, then processing that randomly determines compositional elements related to size, quantity, color, placement, and grid density within specified parameters”, says Davis.
Davis has exhibited his artwork extensively at venues throughout the U.S. including Arizona State University, Lawrence University, the University of Minnesota, the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, the Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art, the Center for Contemporary Art in Sacramento, and the Tucson Museum of Art. Traditionally trained with a B.A. in Mathematics and Studio Art from Lawrence University, and a M.F.A. in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Davis currently serves as Program Director for Art Foundations at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh Online Division, where he is lead faculty and head of curriculum development. He also wrote “Foundations of Design” (http://amzn.com/1111343616), an introductory textbook for art and design students in 2012.
He recently concluded a well received solo exhibition this past December in Bokeh Gallery at the monOrchid, which featured his latest project "Location Series". This exciting projected was made possible through a hugely successful fundraising campaign on the microphilanthropy site Hatchfund which Davis was able to raise over $4000 in just two weeks to produce the series in its entity. “Location Series” is a fascinating set of images that appear to be abstractions of actual architecture and locations but are actually imaginary output of a computer program. Want to learn more about Jeff Davis and his artwork? Feel free to explore more of Davis’s work http://www.jeffgdavis.com. Photographs courtesy of artist and Sean Deckert.
