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He describes himself as a minimalist who thrives on order and precision, and that temperament steered him first toward graphic design and then into three-dimensional work. His signature works are geometric wall sculptures constructed from thousands of individually painted wooden dowels, anchored into machine-drilled, digitally designed plywood boards. Each dowel functions as a single droplet of paint, and the cumulative placement of color across the grid resolves into an image that sharpens when viewed head on and dissolves as the viewer moves. It is a practice that sits exactly on the seam between digital logic and the hand, and it is the reason his name appears in a set otherwise populated by coders: he is the artist whose physical pixels learned to move." ] }, { "heading": "The peg piece: digital logic in wood", "paragraphs": [ "Bilfield came to his medium through an interest in the moving image. He has cited the constant shifting of television graphics as a source: a screen image that changes while the viewer watches passively, and a wish to make work where the vantage point itself dictates the image and the saturation of color, in turn activating the viewer. Where the television is bounded by its screen, he wanted to extend that boundary to the dimensions of the room, so that everyone viewing the piece holds a slightly different image. The dowel, or peg, is the unit that makes this possible. A pixelated representation of a single image emerges from the carefully designed placement of each individually colored peg, and the placement of only a few pegs can shift the overall mood of a work.", "Bilfield frames the process as a dialogue between control and intuition. Each piece begins with a planned foundation of grids, concentric circles, or curvilinear forms, but he leaves room for improvisation during assembly. As he puts it, this interplay between structure and spontaneity is where he finds the balance that brings each work to life, and the final chapter of the story is written by the viewer, who completes the experience through a unique perspective. The subjects range from pure abstraction to representational imagery, from cherry blossoms to panoramic landscapes to bold monochromes, and the works are inspired by the hues of sunsets, space, and natural phenomena.", "That practice has accumulated a long exhibition record. Bilfield has shown with Krause Gallery in New York since 2013, including the solo exhibitions It's In The Eyes (2015) and Transitions (2018), and with galleries including Black Book in Denver, where he mounted the solo show Geometricize (2019), Oliver Cole in Miami, Lemon Frame in Tel Aviv, Artspace Warehouse in Los Angeles, and Kunstwarenhaus in Zurich. His work has appeared at the Scope and Affordable Art fairs and at Spectrum Miami during Art Basel week. He is now represented across a roster of galleries including JoAnne Artman in Laguna Beach, Whistler Contemporary in British Columbia, Woolff in London, and Krause in New York." ] }, { "heading": "Transitions: removing wood, paint, and glue", "paragraphs": [ "Transitions, released on Art Blocks on July 27, 2021, is a collaboration between the generative artist Jason Ting and Bilfield, comprising 4,712 unique editions. The premise is a direct translation: the project takes the visual aesthetic of a Bilfield peg piece and moves it into the generative register. Pixels from the physical world take on new life as the limitations of reality are removed and they are free to assemble and morph without the rigidity or permanence of wood, paint, and glue. The dowels that, in the studio, are fixed forever at the moment of gluing become, on chain, elements that rotate, reconfigure, and settle into a different arrangement each time the script runs.", "The possibility space is wide. Round and square variants incorporate multiple color palettes into four distinct styles, each with its own attributes, and further variation in dimensions, depth, color placement, animation, and light modes ensures that no two outputs are alike. The on-chain trait fields published with the collection bear this out, naming style, shape, size, peg length, target rings, confetti colors, monochrome, and a lights-on toggle as the axes along which the work varies. Each piece is interactive: a collector can use the mouse to rotate the assembly and inspect it from every angle, an action that returns the screen-based work to the embodied, perspective-dependent viewing that governs the physical pieces." ] }, { "heading": "A collaboration of complementary skills", "paragraphs": [ "The division of labor in Transitions is instructive. Bilfield supplied the aesthetic vocabulary, the peg grid, the palettes, the logic of an image that assembles from colored units, while Ting, a New Haven new media artist trained at the University of California, San Diego, supplied the generative system and the real-time rendering. Bilfield has recounted that what began as a relatively simple visual recreation grew over months into something far more elaborate, gaining animations, customizations such as a night mode, the ability to manipulate the image directly, and even the option to sync a piece to the owner's own music through a Spotify integration. The launch was a commercial and cultural success: the collection of roughly five thousand unique pieces sold out in about an hour, a result Bilfield has pointed to when discussing the value of natively digital and interactive art.", "Transitions has remained an actively traded early Art Blocks release, with thousands of unique owners on secondary markets in the years since the mint, a sign of the durability of the collection within the platform's catalogue. For Bilfield the project was not an isolated experiment but the start of an ongoing engagement with on-chain work. In March 2023 he released Gallery Ghosts, a collection of 1,500 generative digital characters that sold out in five minutes, and tied it back to the studio by hand-building six physical, peg-based versions of randomly selected ghosts as 15-by-15-inch works made from 729 painted wooden dowels each." ] }, { "heading": "Continuity between studio and chain", "paragraphs": [ "What distinguishes Bilfield's contribution to the AB[500] is that the generative work is downstream of an established physical practice rather than the reverse. The peg piece is the source text, and Transitions is its translation. The same concerns govern both: a fixed grid that nonetheless yields an image only through the viewer's position, a palette drawn from natural light, and a tension between rigorous structure and the small, intuitive choices that give a composition its mood. The move on chain does not abandon those concerns; it lifts the constraint that, in wood and glue, each decision is permanent. Where the studio piece settles into one arrangement forever, the generative work proposes 4,712 of them.", "That continuity has only deepened as Bilfield's physical practice has expanded in scale. His recent commissions include large architectural installations: a body of sculptural work for a corporate conference comprising eight artworks built from sixteen panels and 49,952 hand-painted dowels, including a twenty-foot-wide logo piece, color-matched to the client's brand identity and destined for permanent display. His pieces also live in private residences across the United States and abroad and have appeared on screen, including a commission for the HBO series Silicon Valley. In summer 2026 his work featured in Here Comes the Sun, a group exhibition at JoAnne Artman Gallery in Laguna Beach, where the gallery characterized his crisp graphic sensibility as distilling familiar, panoramic forms into striking, color-saturated statements.", "Within the AB[500], Bilfield occupies a particular and useful position. He is the set's clearest example of a generative work that begins outside the screen, in a craft tradition of placement and color, and arrives on chain as the natural extension of an existing idea. Transitions is at once a landmark of the early Art Blocks era and a faithful record of a sculptor's method: thousands of small color decisions, assembled into an image that only the viewer, moving, can complete." ] } ], "body_markdown": "Matt Bilfield is a mixed-media and sculptural artist based in Los Angeles, born in 1981. He describes himself as a minimalist who thrives on order and precision, and that temperament steered him first toward graphic design and then into three-dimensional work. His signature works are geometric wall sculptures constructed from thousands of individually painted wooden dowels, anchored into machine-drilled, digitally designed plywood boards. Each dowel functions as a single droplet of paint, and the cumulative placement of color across the grid resolves into an image that sharpens when viewed head on and dissolves as the viewer moves. It is a practice that sits exactly on the seam between digital logic and the hand, and it is the reason his name appears in a set otherwise populated by coders: he is the artist whose physical pixels learned to move.\n\n## The peg piece: digital logic in wood\n\nBilfield came to his medium through an interest in the moving image. He has cited the constant shifting of television graphics as a source: a screen image that changes while the viewer watches passively, and a wish to make work where the vantage point itself dictates the image and the saturation of color, in turn activating the viewer. Where the television is bounded by its screen, he wanted to extend that boundary to the dimensions of the room, so that everyone viewing the piece holds a slightly different image. The dowel, or peg, is the unit that makes this possible. A pixelated representation of a single image emerges from the carefully designed placement of each individually colored peg, and the placement of only a few pegs can shift the overall mood of a work.\n\nBilfield frames the process as a dialogue between control and intuition. Each piece begins with a planned foundation of grids, concentric circles, or curvilinear forms, but he leaves room for improvisation during assembly. As he puts it, this interplay between structure and spontaneity is where he finds the balance that brings each work to life, and the final chapter of the story is written by the viewer, who completes the experience through a unique perspective. The subjects range from pure abstraction to representational imagery, from cherry blossoms to panoramic landscapes to bold monochromes, and the works are inspired by the hues of sunsets, space, and natural phenomena.\n\nThat practice has accumulated a long exhibition record. Bilfield has shown with Krause Gallery in New York since 2013, including the solo exhibitions It's In The Eyes (2015) and Transitions (2018), and with galleries including Black Book in Denver, where he mounted the solo show Geometricize (2019), Oliver Cole in Miami, Lemon Frame in Tel Aviv, Artspace Warehouse in Los Angeles, and Kunstwarenhaus in Zurich. His work has appeared at the Scope and Affordable Art fairs and at Spectrum Miami during Art Basel week. He is now represented across a roster of galleries including JoAnne Artman in Laguna Beach, Whistler Contemporary in British Columbia, Woolff in London, and Krause in New York.\n\n## Transitions: removing wood, paint, and glue\n\nTransitions, released on Art Blocks on July 27, 2021, is a collaboration between the generative artist Jason Ting and Bilfield, comprising 4,712 unique editions. The premise is a direct translation: the project takes the visual aesthetic of a Bilfield peg piece and moves it into the generative register. Pixels from the physical world take on new life as the limitations of reality are removed and they are free to assemble and morph without the rigidity or permanence of wood, paint, and glue. The dowels that, in the studio, are fixed forever at the moment of gluing become, on chain, elements that rotate, reconfigure, and settle into a different arrangement each time the script runs.\n\nThe possibility space is wide. Round and square variants incorporate multiple color palettes into four distinct styles, each with its own attributes, and further variation in dimensions, depth, color placement, animation, and light modes ensures that no two outputs are alike. The on-chain trait fields published with the collection bear this out, naming style, shape, size, peg length, target rings, confetti colors, monochrome, and a lights-on toggle as the axes along which the work varies. Each piece is interactive: a collector can use the mouse to rotate the assembly and inspect it from every angle, an action that returns the screen-based work to the embodied, perspective-dependent viewing that governs the physical pieces.\n\n## A collaboration of complementary skills\n\nThe division of labor in Transitions is instructive. Bilfield supplied the aesthetic vocabulary, the peg grid, the palettes, the logic of an image that assembles from colored units, while Ting, a New Haven new media artist trained at the University of California, San Diego, supplied the generative system and the real-time rendering. Bilfield has recounted that what began as a relatively simple visual recreation grew over months into something far more elaborate, gaining animations, customizations such as a night mode, the ability to manipulate the image directly, and even the option to sync a piece to the owner's own music through a Spotify integration. The launch was a commercial and cultural success: the collection of roughly five thousand unique pieces sold out in about an hour, a result Bilfield has pointed to when discussing the value of natively digital and interactive art.\n\nTransitions has remained an actively traded early Art Blocks release, with thousands of unique owners on secondary markets in the years since the mint, a sign of the durability of the collection within the platform's catalogue. For Bilfield the project was not an isolated experiment but the start of an ongoing engagement with on-chain work. In March 2023 he released Gallery Ghosts, a collection of 1,500 generative digital characters that sold out in five minutes, and tied it back to the studio by hand-building six physical, peg-based versions of randomly selected ghosts as 15-by-15-inch works made from 729 painted wooden dowels each.\n\n## Continuity between studio and chain\n\nWhat distinguishes Bilfield's contribution to the AB[500] is that the generative work is downstream of an established physical practice rather than the reverse. The peg piece is the source text, and Transitions is its translation. The same concerns govern both: a fixed grid that nonetheless yields an image only through the viewer's position, a palette drawn from natural light, and a tension between rigorous structure and the small, intuitive choices that give a composition its mood. The move on chain does not abandon those concerns; it lifts the constraint that, in wood and glue, each decision is permanent. Where the studio piece settles into one arrangement forever, the generative work proposes 4,712 of them.\n\nThat continuity has only deepened as Bilfield's physical practice has expanded in scale. His recent commissions include large architectural installations: a body of sculptural work for a corporate conference comprising eight artworks built from sixteen panels and 49,952 hand-painted dowels, including a twenty-foot-wide logo piece, color-matched to the client's brand identity and destined for permanent display. His pieces also live in private residences across the United States and abroad and have appeared on screen, including a commission for the HBO series Silicon Valley. In summer 2026 his work featured in Here Comes the Sun, a group exhibition at JoAnne Artman Gallery in Laguna Beach, where the gallery characterized his crisp graphic sensibility as distilling familiar, panoramic forms into striking, color-saturated statements.\n\nWithin the AB[500], Bilfield occupies a particular and useful position. He is the set's clearest example of a generative work that begins outside the screen, in a craft tradition of placement and color, and arrives on chain as the natural extension of an existing idea. 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activation, and the effect of placing only a few pegs.", "url": "https://www.artsper.com/us/contemporary-artists/united-states/56095/matt-bilfield", "label": "Artsper artist biography" }, { "n": 2, "note": "Artist statement on dowels inserted into digitally designed, machine-drilled boards, each dowel acting as a droplet of paint, and the work extending into the dimensions of the room.", "url": "https://www.mattbilfield.com/about", "label": "Matt Bilfield, CV and about" }, { "n": 3, "note": "Gallery feature quoting Bilfield on structure and spontaneity, the viewer completing the work, and inspiration from sunsets, space, cherry blossoms, and night skies.", "url": "https://whistlerart.com/artist-matt-bilfield", "label": "Whistler Contemporary Gallery feature" }, { "n": 4, "note": "Detailed CV listing solo and group exhibitions, including Krause Gallery (New York, 2013 onward), the 2018 Transitions solo show, Black Book Gallery's Geometricize (2019), Lemon Frame (Tel Aviv), Oliver Cole (Miami), Kunstwarenhaus (Zurich), and art fairs, along with current gallery representation.", "url": "https://www.mattbilfield.com/about", "label": "Matt Bilfield exhibition history" }, { "n": 5, "note": "Official collection page confirming Transitions by Jason Ting and Matt Bilfield, 4,712 unique artworks, released July 27, 2021 on Art Blocks.", "url": "https://www.artblocks.io/collection/transitions-by-jason-ting-x-matt-bilfield", "label": "Art Blocks: Transitions" }, { "n": 6, "note": "Artist project page describing Transitions as transitioning the aesthetic of a Bilfield peg piece into the generative world, with round and square variants, four styles, variation in depth, color, animation, and light, mouse-driven exploration, and the 4,712 edition figure.", "url": "https://www.mattbilfield.com/transitions-on-artblocks", "label": "Matt Bilfield: Transitions on Art Blocks" }, { "n": 7, "note": "Secondary-market listing enumerating the collection's on-chain traits: style, shape, size, peg length, target rings, confetti colors, monochrome, and lights on.", "url": "https://opensea.io/collection/transitions-by-jason-ting-x-matt-bilfield", "label": "OpenSea: Transitions collection traits" }, { "n": 8, "note": "Project page biography of collaborator Jason Ting, a New Haven new media artist and UC San Diego Interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts graduate, with the interactive viewer for the collection.", "url": "https://jzting.github.io/transitions-viewer/", "label": "Transitions interactive viewer (Jason Ting)" }, { "n": 9, "note": "Interview in which Bilfield recounts connecting with Jason Ting, the project growing over months to include animation, night mode, image manipulation, and Spotify syncing, and the launch selling around five thousand pieces in about an hour.", "url": "https://canvasrebel.com/meet-matt-bilfield/", "label": "CanvasRebel: Meet Matt Bilfield" }, { "n": 10, "note": "On-chain collection dashboard documenting Transitions trading activity, ownership distribution, and volume on secondary markets.", "url": "https://defillama.com/nfts/collection/0xa7d8d9ef8d8ce8992df33d8b8cf4aebabd5bd270:117000000:117999999", "label": "DefiLlama: Transitions collection" }, { "n": 11, "note": "Gallery Ghosts page documenting the March 2023 release of 1,500 generative pieces that sold out in five minutes, and the six hand-built physical versions made from 729 painted wooden dowels each.", "url": "https://www.mattbilfield.com/galleryghosts", "label": "Matt Bilfield: Gallery Ghosts" }, { "n": 12, "note": "Special Projects page detailing a commissioned sculptural exhibition of eight works across sixteen panels and 49,952 hand-painted dowels, including a twenty-foot logo piece color-matched to the client's brand.", "url": "https://www.mattbilfield.com/special-projects", "label": "Matt Bilfield: Special Projects" }, { "n": 13, "note": "Installation archive showing Bilfield works in private residences in the US and abroad and a commissioned piece for the HBO series Silicon Valley.", "url": "https://www.mattbilfield.com/spaces", "label": "Matt Bilfield: Spaces" }, { "n": 14, "note": "JoAnne Artman Gallery exhibition page for Here Comes the Sun (summer 2026), describing Bilfield's crisp graphic sensibility and color-saturated panoramic forms.", "url": "https://www.joanneartmangallery.com/art/here-comes-the-sun/", "label": "JoAnne Artman Gallery: Here Comes the Sun" } ], "bibliography": [ { "category": "In the AB[500]: Art Blocks", "entries": [ { "note": "Official Art Blocks collection page for Transitions by Jason Ting and Matt Bilfield, confirming 4,712 unique artworks released on July 27, 2021.", "url": "https://www.artblocks.io/collection/transitions-by-jason-ting-x-matt-bilfield", "label": "artblocks.io/collection/transitions-by-jason-ting-x-matt-bilfield", "meta": "collection · 2021" }, { "note": "Bilfield's own project page explaining Transitions as the translation of a peg piece into generative form, with the round and square 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