Advay Mengle (b. 1989) is an American painter, photographer, and pastel artist, based in the San Francisco Bay, with award-winning works featured by galleries around the US. Mengle’s signature paint style uses bold, irregular strokes done almost entirely with palette knife to achieve a dynamic, textured impasto surface in expressive color, with canvas peeking through.

Outside of the arts, Advay is an engineer, technology executive, and entrepreneur, currently serving as founder and CEO of a stealth AI 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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