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Franklin Silva

Franklin Silva

Franklin is a Brazilian artist. In his work, he explores the relationship of nature, humans, society, and issues that are present in everyday life, exploring how each of them is responsible for the other and how they play great influence in each others existence through disturbances and fragmentation’s.


Franklin started to draw when he was 11 years. When he first started to explore his talents, he put particular emphasizes on the surrealist movement. From an early age, he observed nature and its peculiarities. Over time, he tried to utilize his art in a way to understand and explore tiredness and human emotions. He graduated from Faculdades Metropolitanas Unidas with a degree in Visual Arts. In his art he uses charcoal, ink, oil, woodcut/linoleum gravure and watercolor.


Franklin worked at Sesc São Paulo as an art instructor and resident artist where he explored and developed a diverse array of art related activities to engage the community. He created string art workshops for children and teens where he introduced a conversation between woodcutting / linoleogravure and drawing with various tools to highlight string art. Franklin created the installation 'Lines and Shapes' recently feature at Sesc in 2018. His work was shown at the Municipal Theater of São Paulo, Itu's Art's Center and the Santana de Parnaiba's Museum, among others.

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