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Royal NoneSuch Gallery
April 29 - May 28, 2016Info
4231 Telegraph Avenue Oakland, CA 94609 Google Map »Reception
April 29, 2015 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Eli Thorne, 2016
Eli Thorne’s work explores athleticism and sports culture, as well as visible displays of maleness through sculptural forms. As a trans male, Thorne aims to reconcile and negotiate his own sense of masculinity and relationship to today’s hyper-macho culture by investigating the aesthetics of sexuality, manhood, aspiration, and transformation. In doing so, his work delves into issues of societal pressure, aggression, and the toxic intersection of the feasible and the fantastical. In Thorne’s exhibition Yellow No. 5, Bruh at Royal NoneSuch Gallery, disparate and rough hewn “masculine” materials are forced together in a sculptural hodgepodge to create obtrusive, floor-to-ceiling forms rooted in the aesthetics of construction, home gyms, and the pseudo-practical; taking a critical look at toxic jock identity, queerness, caffeine and male entitlement.