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Title: Blood Spatter Killed the Bodycam (aka Posse Comitatus)
Medium: monoprint in nine acrylic layers on cotton paper
Dimensions: 16 x 11in image on 20 x 13in paper
Statement:
"Blood Spatter Killed the Bodycam" was inspired by the recent activation of the military against LA protests. I make the audience the actor: they are the soldier, holding the baton, and viewing their actions through their own bodycam footage. I use multiple layers of extended open-time acrylic paint instead of ink to add substantial relief to the monotype, especially to the blood spatter. "Impressions," here, has multiple interpretations: the beating impresses the baton on the victim, the spatter impresses upon the camera lens, and viral video footage is merely the modern manifestation of impressions since the printing press.
Bio:
Advay Mengle (b. 1989, Los Angeles) is an American painter, photographer, and printmaker. Advay works in bursts of bold, vibrant color with both flat color fields and thick, marbled, palette knife impasto, combining three-dimensional forms and two-dimensional figures in a single space. Years of street, landscape, and wildlife photography and physics inspire many of his compositions. Advay is a member of the California Art Club, Berkeley Art Center, California Art League, and Pacific Art League. 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.
Title: Blood Spatter Killed the Bodycam (aka Posse Comitatus)
Medium: monoprint in nine acrylic layers on cotton paper
Dimensions: 16 x 11in image on 20 x 13in paper
Statement:
"Blood Spatter Killed the Bodycam" was inspired by the recent activation of the military against LA protests. I make the audience the actor: they are the soldier, holding the baton, and viewing their actions through their own bodycam footage. I use multiple layers of extended open-time acrylic paint instead of ink to add substantial relief to the monotype, especially to the blood spatter. "Impressions," here, has multiple interpretations: the beating impresses the baton on the victim, the spatter impresses upon the camera lens, and viral video footage is merely the modern manifestation of impressions since the printing press.
Bio:
Advay Mengle (b. 1989, Los Angeles) is an American painter, photographer, and printmaker. Advay works in bursts of bold, vibrant color with both flat color fields and thick, marbled, palette knife impasto, combining three-dimensional forms and two-dimensional figures in a single space. Years of street, landscape, and wildlife photography and physics inspire many of his compositions. Advay is a member of the California Art Club, Berkeley Art Center, California Art League, and Pacific Art League. 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.