Bio
“A painting should grab you by the throat, and not let you go.” -- Advay Mengle
Advay Mengle (b. 1989, Los Angeles) is an American painter, photographer, and printmaker based in the San Francisco Bay. Advay works in bursts of bold, vibrant color with flat fields, thick, marbled, palette knife impasto, and feathered, flowing forms. His style spans from expressionist figuration to pure abstraction. Years of street, landscape, and wildlife photography and quantum physics inspire many of his compositions. In 2025, his first year of exhibiting, Advay was curated into over 18 juried exhibitions worldwide, with works on view across the Los Angeles, San Francisco Bay, and Sacramento areas, along with Spain, UK, France, and Japan; and in 2026 Advay's works will be seen in museums around the US.
Advay Mengle’s signature style, Dynamic Divisionism, incorporates thousands of swirling, whirling, curling brush strokes of contrasting colors, densely packed on rich backgrounds. Dynamic Divisionism is Advay’s take on fusing neo-Impressionist Divisionism from the 1880s with post-WW2 Action Painting .
“I paint in a state of maximum joy and energy, and I developed Dynamic Divisionism as the best way to impart that feeling to the viewer.”
- Advay Mengle
Outside of the arts, Advay is an engineer, technology executive, and entrepreneur, currently serving as founder and CEO of a tech startup, previously at Google, Microsoft, and VP Engineering for a robotics AI company. Advay is an inventor of over 25 granted patents in software architecture, artificial intelligence, digital commerce, and advertising.
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