Born in Chicago, Illinois in 1955, Elizabeth Saviano hails from a family of artists, designers, musicians, dancers, writers, and politicians. The eldest of eight siblings, as a young child she began painting and drawing, playing piano, dancing, singing, and writing plays and poetry. She was a serious student and excelled academically, and by her secondary school years her attention turned away from the arts to mathematics and the physical sciences.
She entered university on a national scholarship to study nursing and after six years of training in Michigan and California, she received her master's degree from the University of California, San Francisco in 1981. While practicing as a women's health nurse practitioner, teaching, and raising two daughters, she continued to paint, draw, and play music sporadically. At university she also studied journalism and over the years has published in newspapers, practice guides, and academic journals.
In the early 1990s, because of her commitment to social justice, and equality for women, Saviano embarked on a new career path to study law. She is a member of the Bar Association of California and, after twenty years, is retired from practice as a health care regulation attorney primarily representing non-profit community health centers that serve the economically disadvantaged. She has also provided artists and galleries with legal counsel through California Lawyers for the Arts.
Saviano has traveled extensively, primarily through Europe, and the North, Central and South Americas, and has visited art studios, galleries and museums in many corners of the world to study and understand culture and art history. Largely self-taught as a painter, she began painting seriously in 2005 and has shown her work in galleries in the San Francisco Bay Area, Mexico, Chicago, New York and Europe. In addition to painting, photography is a long-time interest that she is exploring as a form of artistic expression, When she is not otherwise traveling, she divides her time between the San Francisco Bay Area and her art studio at the beach near Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico. Ms. Saviano is currently represented by Ross Contemporary in Chicago, Illinois.
She entered university on a national scholarship to study nursing and after six years of training in Michigan and California, she received her master's degree from the University of California, San Francisco in 1981. While practicing as a women's health nurse practitioner, teaching, and raising two daughters, she continued to paint, draw, and play music sporadically. At university she also studied journalism and over the years has published in newspapers, practice guides, and academic journals.
In the early 1990s, because of her commitment to social justice, and equality for women, Saviano embarked on a new career path to study law. She is a member of the Bar Association of California and, after twenty years, is retired from practice as a health care regulation attorney primarily representing non-profit community health centers that serve the economically disadvantaged. She has also provided artists and galleries with legal counsel through California Lawyers for the Arts.
Saviano has traveled extensively, primarily through Europe, and the North, Central and South Americas, and has visited art studios, galleries and museums in many corners of the world to study and understand culture and art history. Largely self-taught as a painter, she began painting seriously in 2005 and has shown her work in galleries in the San Francisco Bay Area, Mexico, Chicago, New York and Europe. In addition to painting, photography is a long-time interest that she is exploring as a form of artistic expression, When she is not otherwise traveling, she divides her time between the San Francisco Bay Area and her art studio at the beach near Mérida, Yucatan, Mexico. Ms. Saviano is currently represented by Ross Contemporary in Chicago, Illinois.