Gabriel Silvano (he/him) is a 20-year-old Filipino-American artist living in Morton Grove, Illinois. His practice involves drawing, painting, and photography as a way to explore his practice involves drawing, painting, and photography is a way to explore themes of activism and identity in issues with mental health and personal relationships to nature. Silvano’s methodology involves digital research on topics of social media, news articles He also reflects his work based on color and expressionism. His methodology also involves drawing as a way to work through ideas to explore his sketches which helps him to draw references from artists in different eras which helped him to connect his ideas with the audience. Painting has helped him to express color as a way to embody the innovative momentum of connecting his emotions. One of the things that he relies on is portraiture in which he references his memories using reference photos as a way to indicate his life experiences.
