Ilya Shkipin is a classically trained artist that received a bachelor’s degree in illustration at the Academy of Art University in San-Francisco. For many years he has experimented with expressionistic figurative painting, and he worked as an artist in the Bay Area before incorporating neural networks into his work. He uses various neural networks such as VQGan, Clip, and Styletransfers to achieve his vision to “disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed.” With his work, Shkipin explores the blending and deconstruction of a figure through abstraction, kind of like how dreams deconstruct forms and memories.
