Scott Treleaven

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.

'This is the Salivation Army' (1996-1999) included in Copy Machine Manifestos at the Brooklyn Museum: "Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines is the first exhibition dedicated to the rich history of five decades of artists’ zines produced in North America. Since the 1970s, zines—short for “fanzines,” magazines, or self-published booklets of texts and images, usually made with a copy machine—have given a voice and visibility to many operating outside of mainstream culture. Artists have harnessed the medium’s essential role in communication and community building and used it to transform material and conceptual approaches to art making across all media. This canon-expanding exhibition documents zines’ relationship to various subcultures and avant-garde practices, from punk and street culture to conceptual, queer, and feminist art. It also examines zines’ intersections with other mediums, including collage, craft, film, drawing, painting, performance, photography, sculpture, and video. Featuring over one thousand zines and artworks by over one hundred artists, Copy Machine Manifestos demonstrates the importance of zines to artistic production and its reception across North America...The exhibition is accompanied by the first comprehensive publication to explore artists’ zines, co-published with Phaidon Press, and including over 800 images of zines and works in other media alongside texts by the curators and specially commissioned essays...as well as an extensive section featuring biographies of all the artists represented in the project."

Open November 17, 2023–March 31, 2024

Scott Treleaven The Triumph of Pan, 2011 Two pastel, crayon, gesso, gouache, house paint and collages on paper 99 x 64 cm each | 39 x 25.25 inches

Scott Treleaven

Ghostbox, 2014

Pastel, crayon, pencil, house paint, gouache and collage on paper

48.75 x 37 inches

Scott Treleaven

Queercore (for Will Munro), 2013

Pastel, crayon, pencil, house paint, gouache and collage on paper

48.75 x 37 inches

will munro: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Munro

Untitled (2020) Scott Treleaven

watercolour, collage, gouache on paper

41 x 31 cm

Scott Treleaven, Deer Park, 2019, Gouache, flashe and permanent crayon on canvas 45.7 x 35 in (116 x 89 cm)

Scott Treleaven, Remote Viewing of Dungeness (Two Attempts) 2014 Pastel, crayon, pencil, house paint, gouache and collage on paper diptych, 48.62 x 37 inches each

Scott Treleaven

Working on the Ground, 2014

Pastel, crayon, pencil, house paint, gouache and collage on paper

48.75 x 37 inches

Scott Treleaven, Orrery II (2017) cardboard, paper, brass, foamcore, gouache, adhesive