Eli Thorne

Your boy is now on the @white_columns artist registry jump over there and poke around. Looking forward to documenting my latest work to share in this new space💥🍁

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I love Spring Can’t wait for Soft Serve indulgence Jupiter traveling into my first house of Leo for a year! Catskill Creek Swimming Recreating Thomas Cole paintings Let Uranus shake open my 11th The Sun The River The Ocean

Swimming in the small moments. To me it’s the best part of painting.

Another Fish Out Of Water lipstick lesbian 💄💋

Mark your calendars! Open Inquiry: UC Arts exhibition opening reception is March 21st and brings together emerging artists from the University of California’s leading art programs at UCLA, UC Berkeley, and UC Davis. Featuring current students and graduates from the past two decades, the exhibition highlights innovative, research-driven practices across painting, sculpture, installation, performance, and digital media. RSVP to reserve your spot for the opening night! /e/open-inquiry-uc-arts-opening-reception-tickets-1981523897318 We are excited to exhibit Eli’s wonderful pieces in 𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐍 𝐈𝐍𝐐𝐔𝐈𝐑𝐘: 𝐔𝐂 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐒 Artist 𝐄𝐋𝐈 𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐍𝐄 was raised in Santa Cruz, California and received his BFA from UC Berkeley. Thorne's work makes use of a personal vocabulary of symbols, overlaying mismatched childhood memories and landscapes with wild color and rough ornamental shape. Drawing simultaneously on histories of "outsider" and Folk art as well as his own identity as a trans man, his works are an experiment in self and world building: understanding the body as a landscape that too can be cultivated, constructed, and cared for. Thorne’s work is an invocation to explore the porous and messy boundaries between nature and self, an invitation to viewers to join him in finding their own sanctuary. @eli_thorne @sausalito_center_for_the_arts

I’ll be back in The Bay in art form and in body for this opening! Looking forward to the morning fog, ocean air, old friends and new, in the sun. Opening is March 21st 4-6pm Sausalito Center For The Arts. OPEN INQUIRY, a new generation of 60+ UC Alumni artists from University of California Los Angeles, Berkeley and Davis is redefining research through creative practice, challenging narratives, and expanding the boundaries of inquiry. The art departments at these universities have long been recognized as seminal hubs for artistic experimentation and critical thought, consistently inculcating artists who leverage academic investigation with artistic rigor. This exhibition features current students and graduates from the last ten years, whose innovative practices carry forward the artistic legacy of the UC arts. Co-Curated by Jennifer Bailey Wechsler and Ginny Duncan. Thank you both! @jenwex @ginnyduncan Exhibition opens and runs from March 14-April 12, 2026 Sausalito Center for The Arts. Opening reception March 21, 4-6pm Blissed & Babbling Oil, oil pastel, pastel on pre-dyed canvas 24” x 24” 2025 Red Tide #2 Oil, oil stick, charcoal on canvas 13” x 16” 2025 Also, dang, thank you UC Berkeley Art Department for a life changing education and mind expanding opportunity for my young undergraduate brain 💗

Hi neighbors 🐄

Winter snaps, cold snaps, odd frozen isolation, warm love, melting ice 🔥🧊

Having fun with these 🐟 frozen indeed

A week and a half left of my show @collarworks ! Closes December 5th. I had a great time sharing some older and recent works with you all! Thanks to those who were able to venture out to see it in Troy, NY. Thanks Emily for inviting me in and Collar Works/ FlockArt for the space! Frankenstein’s Stick Mixed Materials 75”x24”

Artist and surfer Eli Thorne’s imaginative paintings and sculptures often feature turbulent seas and potent symbology. Using his personal experience as a trans man, his work explores psychological and spiritual processes rich with sentiments of love, tenderness, death, energy, rage and power all at once. Eli’s work is currently available for viewing in a solo show called “Frankenstein’s Paradise” at @collarworks , curated by @emilynola , of which the pieces featured here are a part. He was also recently part of a group show called “Water Finds a Way,” at @utopiaupstate , which closed a few days ago. Subscribe to @emocean.surf now at the link in bio for more emerging surf art and stories.