Davisphere is the website for Jeffrey Davis’s painting portfolio and photography. Mr. Davis is a self-taught artist who grew up in Golden Valley, Minnesota, and has lived in Philadelphia, Chicago, and New York. He currently resides in Los Angeles. The artist moved to LA in 2003 to escape New York’s cold winters and humid summers in exchange for the inspirational world of earthquakes, fires, mudslides, and drought.
Davis’s work is varied, with an emphasis on both abstract and surrealist influences. The Topography, Eclipse, and Anti-Gravity series are painted on glass with acrylics. The rapid-drying nature and plasticity of acrylic paint allow the artist to cut through previous layers, creating transparency or inserting additional imagery. The randomness of working on glass and allowing the colors to intermingle is especially evident in the Anti-Gravity series. The resulting images often remain uncertain until revealed on the reverse side of the painting. These works involve fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, and fractal geometry, all guided by the artist’s hand.
The Topography series focuses on climate change and its immediate impact on Southern California’s landscape. The paintings are abstractions based on U.S. Geological Survey maps of specific site topographies. Each work is painted on both sides of the glass, reflecting the changing seasons and their associated conditions: drought, fire, rain, and mudslide. The mirror-box framing reflects both the reverse side of the painting and the viewer, reminding us that we are the cause of these changes.
The inspiration for this series came from driving along Pacific Coast Highway during a summer vacation and watching wildfires approach the roadway and scorch the landscape. The dry, pale ground cover and brush were quickly consumed, transforming the landscape into a massive field of blackened debris. Nothing escaped.
The Dreams series focuses on what remains in the mind after waking from REM sleep. The paintings are surreal in nature and draw inspiration from the bombardment of ideas and images in contemporary media, iconic works of art, and the artist’s own random thoughts. The works layer politics, science, music, technology, and the environment into a mélange.
Works on canvas and in other media are also available.Time, space, physics, chemistry, mathematics, evolution, politics - the meaning of life in a nutshell. The paintings mean one thing to me and another to the viewer - it's up to them to determine their own interpretation.
Works on canvas and in other media are also available.
BS in Economics from The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School
MBA from The University of Chicago.
* El Segundo Museum of Art (ESMoA) - Advisory Committee
* Santa Monica Museum of Art: Board Member - 2014 - 2015
* Partnership Scholars Program Mentor: 2016 - 2022
* Hawthorne Arts Complex Open Studios: 2016 - 2022
Group Exhibits:
* CA 101 Art Exhibition: 2017
* Resin Gallery Hermosa Beach, CA: "Water & Wood" - 2018
* Al Muratuschi Office Exhibit , Torrance, CA - 2018
* CA 101 Art Exhibition: 2019
* Universal Art Gallery, Venice, CA: Feature Window: October 2020
* Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA: "Purely Abstract": May 2021
* Shoebox Projects Los Angeles, CA: "That's Effin Funny": May 2021
* Shockboxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA "Not! An Art Fair": June 2021
* San Diego Museum of Art: "Artist Guild Summer Exhibition": June 2021
* Manhattan Beach Art Center: Annual Exhibition - July 2021
* Shockboxx,, "The Really, Really Good Abstract Art Show: August 2021
* Shockboxx , "Pop Culture & Trashy": November 2021
* San Diego Museum of Art: "Artist Guild Summer Exhibition": March 2022
* Resin Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA. "Water & Wood": March 2022
* Brea Art Gallery: Brea, CA "Made in California": May 2022
* Manhattan Beach Art Center, CA: Annual Exhibition - July 2022
* Huntington Beach Art Center, CA "Centered on the Center ": Feb 2023
* Shockboxx, "Literally, A Figurative Art Show": March 2023
* Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA "All-Media 2023": Summer / Fall 2023
* Shockboxx, Hermosa Beach, CA "Her Kitchy Kitchy", October 2023
* Resin Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA "Water & Wood", November 2023
* Shoebox Arts, Brewery Art Complex, CA "Pattern & Design, "July 2024
* BG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA "Spectrum Gestalt", July 2024
* Shockboxx Gallery, Hermosa, CA, "Not an Art Fair", August 2024
* Hermosa Art Gallery, Hermosa, CA "Summer Fun", August 2024
* Shockboxx, Hermosa Beach, CA"intergalactic Open", February, 2025
* Brea Art Gallery, Brea, CA "Made in California", April, 2025
* ADLAR Studio, LA & NY, "Jeff Davis: Scaled Down", September, 2025
* BG Gallery, "Spectrum Gestalt", June 2026