This week, to kick off Pride Month, Liz and Sarah talk with trans artist, Eli Thorne. We talk with Eli about his experience coming out and transitioning as a trans man, dating as a man for the first time on the hellscape known as Tinder (where he ended up finding love), the Faustian bargain of Instagram success, and how he feels about becoming a dad with his long-time partner.
About Eli Thorne
Eli Thorne was b.1986 in Harrogate, England, and raised in the mountains of Santa
Cruz, California. He received his BFA at UC Berkeley. Later received his MFA from Mills
College. As a trans paitnter and sculptor, his art practice aims to reconcile and negotiate
his own sense of and relationship to manhood. His work has been shown in various
spaces in the Bay Area; Mills College Art Museum, Southern Exposure, Root Division,
Gallery 16, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, Royal Nonesuch Gallery, and Et Al. He has given
talks at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and UC Berkeley and was a featured artist in
the KQED Artist series Redefining Pride. Eli currently lives and maintains his art
practice in Upstate, NY.
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Host: Elizabeth Darrow Bernstein
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