CLYDE PETERSEN
NAÏVE MELODY
JUNE 29 - JULY 24, 2024
PREVIEW RECEPTION - SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 2024 2-4PM
PUBLIC OPENING - FIRST THURSDAY, JULY 11, FROM 5-8PM
J. Rinehart Gallery is thrilled to announce exhibition, Naïve Melody, a collection of new work from Northwest artist Clyde Petersen. This collection of limited-edition serigraphs features lyrics, poems, and prose accompanying hand-drawn images and photographs by Petersen and local collaborators. In Naïve Melody, Petersen searches for a home, hidden somewhere between collective queer history and individual memory.
Naïve Melody will be on view online and in the Gallery June 29 – July 24, 2024. A Preview Reception will be held Saturday, June 29, from 2-4pm accompanied by a live performance by Petersen’s band, Your Heart Breaks, with special guest, Lori Goldston. A Public Opening Reception will be held First Thursday, July 11, 2024, from 5-8pm.
Clyde Petersen (they/he) is a transgender Northwest artist, working in film, animation, music, installation, and fabulous spectacle. He re-creates lost worlds and documents queer culture that has been largely erased by AIDS, capitalism and gentrification. He works to offer alternate, more equitable realities and futures through the reexamination of overlooked histories of queer communities. His work is slow and patient, gathering new oral histories and building scale-model worlds to tell stories in.
In 2019, Clyde founded The Fellow Ship Artist Residency, a paid residency for queer and BIPOC artists to spend a week on Guemes Island in the Salish Sea. He lives in a wooden boat on land on Guemes Island, works on films, and runs the residency space.
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Naïve Melody
Exhibition Statement
Naïve Melody is a collection of new work from Northwest artist Clyde Petersen. This collection of limited-edition serigraphs features lyrics, poems, and prose accompanying hand-drawn images and photographs by Petersen and local collaborators. In Naïve Melody, Petersen searches for a home, hidden somewhere between collective queer history and individual memory.