Scott Treleaven

Scott Treleaven, Scene for the Deserted Palais II (2008) collage, ink, watercolour, inkjet prints and original super8 film still on paper, 74.5 x 55.5cm

Scott Treleaven In Whatever Way Tames Whomsoever, 2017 Gouache, acrylic and panel collage on paper Diptych, 105.5 x 105.5 cm ea. panel

Scott Treleaven Cimitero Drawing 1 (2010) Wax pastel, flashe and collage on paper 29 X 21.3"

Scott Treleaven

Untitled (studio floor/Mercury sandal), 2018

Unique photo collage from original 35mm negative prints, archival tape, in hand-painted artist frame, 12 x 10″

Scott Treleaven, Coney Island Das (2019)

Acrylic, gouache and permanent crayon on canvas

30" X 24"

Scott Treleaven March 2, 2018 - April 1, 2018 Opening reception: Saturday March 3, 4-6pm COOPER COLE is pleased to present Meson, a solo exhibition by Scott Treleaven. This marks Treleaven's second solo exhibition with the gallery. Scott Treleaven’s most recent body of work is an ongoing series of torn photo-collages; bipartite constructions made from over two decades worth of the artist’s own 35mm snapshots. Produced by physically tearing in half and reassembling 4 x 6” photographs, Treleaven creates a new visual unity between the disparate pieces. The tear in the work becomes a transition between two fields; an edit, a horizon and a fulcrum. Usually depictions of atmospheric effects in nature, or quotidian domestic and studio settings, the assemblages avoid easy visual or surrealist puns, working instead with arrangements of subject, light, colour, and space. Each photo surrenders up a fraction of its original form, now segments in a new narrative that evokes the ghosts of their discarded halves. Treleaven’s artistic origins are in small-gage filmmaking and self-published zines that made an enduring contribution to independent, queer, and underground culture. The modest and democratic tenants of his early practice continue in his material choices, as well as his theory of collage as a basic gesture of insolence; a social strategy for both discord and unanticipated beauty. The photographs change from a serially reproducible, private object into a singular unique artwork by a process that usually signifies the ultimate rejection of an image.

Language of the Birds: Occult and Art

80WSE Gallery, New York University January 12 – February 13, 2016

Curated by Pam Grossman

Opening reception: Wednesday, January 13, 6 – 8pm

With: Kenneth Anger * Anohni * Laura Battle * Jordan Belson * Alison Blickle * Carol Bove * Jesse Bransford * BREYER P-ORRIDGE * John Brill * Robert Buratti * Elijah Burgher * Cameron * Leonora Carrington * Francesco Clemente * Ira Cohen * Brian Cotnoir * Aleister Crowley * Enrico Donati * El Gato Chimney * Leonor Fini * JFC Fuller * Helen Rebekah Garber * Rik Garrett * Delia Gonzalez * Jonah Groeneboer * Juanita Guccione * Brion Gysin * Frank Haines * Barry William Hale * Valerie Hammond * Ken Henson * Bernard Hoffman * Nino Japaridze * Gerome Kamrowski * Leo Kenney * Paul Laffoley * Adela Leibowitz * Darcilio Lima * Angus MacLise * Ann McCoy * Rithika Merchant * William Mortensen * Rosaleen Norton * Micki Pellerano * Ryan M Pfeiffer & Rebecca Walz * Max Razdow * Ron Regé, Jr. * Rebecca Salmon * Kurt Seligmann * Harry Smith * Kiki Smith * Xul Solar * Austin Osman Spare * Charles Stein * Shannon Taggart * Gordon Terry * Scott Treleaven * Panos Tsagaris * Charmion von Wiegand * Robert Wang * Peter Lamborn Wilson * Lionel Ziprin

image: Scott Treleaven, New Desirable States (2015) pastel, crayon, gouache, house paint on paper, 41.25 x 31.5 inches

Scott Treleaven, 'Goddy' (2014) pastel, gouache and collage on paper 124.5 x 94.5 cm

Scott Treleaven ‘Fogo I’ (2016) cardboard, foamcore, paper, gouache, PVA adhesive

Scott Treleaven, ‘Queer Sun (for Winston Leyland’ (2015) pastel, gouache and collage on paper 124.5 x 94.5 cm