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Jeff Davis

The launch artist who collects his peers.

Jeff Davis was one of the three artists on Art Blocks' first day, with Construction Token. He has also been collecting the platform since that day: 501 AB[500] works across 243 series, most of them by other artists.

Collector
Jeff Davis · @jeffgdavis · jeffgdavis.eth
Role
Artist · Strategic Advisor, Art Blocks · Founder, Davis Editions
Artist entry
Jeff Davis
Holdings
501 AB[500] works · 243 series · 2 wallets
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82,777,785 · · method
501
AB[500] works
243
Series
279
Minted directly
82,777,785
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Entry into blockchain and crypto art

Davis came to NFTs as an artist. "I ended up applying to SuperRare and getting accepted in 2019," he told Snowfro in 2021, and "I had no idea what I was doing and minted a few works of art here and there over the next year."1 In 2020 he made a more concerted effort with his Abstract Token series,1 and on 27 November 2020 Construction Token launched Art Blocks alongside Chromie Squiggle and Genesis.2

He joined the company months after its founding, later serving as Chief Creative Officer,3 and now describes himself as Strategic Advisor at Art Blocks and founder of Davis Editions.4 Before all of this he taught art for twenty years and wrote textbooks on design and colour.5

Jeff Davis across the AB[500]

Art Blocks holdings

His two wallets hold 501 AB[500] works across 243 series. About a quarter are his own: Color Study (35), Rhythm (21), Drawings for a Monument (19), Schema with DRIFT (18), Rectangles (for Herbert) (11) and ten Construction Token, including #0, #1 and #2. The rest is a collection of his peers, begun on launch day: 279 of the works still held were minted directly, and the earliest arrived on 27 November 2020.

He holds 20 Chromie Squiggles, among them #2, #12 and #14, and Genesis #3 and View Card #0 from 2020, with 17 send/receive, 8 Apparitions, 4 Subscapes, 3 Ringers, 3 Archetype, 2 Fidenza and single works of Meridian, Gazers, Elevated Deconstructions and Unigrids. His Art Blocks profile records him as a holder of the full Curated Series 1 to 8 set and the AB500 Foundations set.4

Associated holdings

He co-founded the Generative Art Foundation and has made physical and screen-based work with Bright Moments,6 where his Portal (Series 095) was first shown. His account of what on-chain work demands: "Art Blocks has a rigorous requirement that all aspects of the work must be on-chain."6

Notes

  1. Erick Calderon, "In Conversation with Jeff Davis," first published on Cent, 7 February 2021. artblocks.io ↩ ↩
  2. Art Blocks, "The Final Three: AB500 Comes Full Circle." artblocks.io ↩
  3. "5 Questions With SCENE: Jeff Davis," Decrypt, 18 November 2023. decrypt.co ↩
  4. Jeff Davis, Art Blocks profile, including bio and set-holder badges. artblocks.io ↩ ↩
  5. Sean Bonner, "Jeff Davis," 2 December 2025. seanbonner.com ↩
  6. Bright Moments Quarterly, "LED," 2 June 2023. brightmoments.io ↩ ↩