Scott Treleaven, The Roaring Stream, 2020 Acrylic, Gouache And Permanent Crayon On Canvas

Scott Treleaven, Untitled (knife) 2005, c-print 29x19"

installation shots – Scott Treleaven, Animal Chapel 

Invisible-Exports (May 1 – June 14, 2015)

Scott Treleaven, Untitled (geranium) 2023, oil on canvas, 9 x 6”

New Pagan Paintings at Cooper Cole open thru May 13

Scott Treleaven, ‘dog (simon)’, 2005, C-print, 29 x 19 inches

"Curated by Francesca Gavin, the group exhibition ‘The Dark Cube’ seeks to exploit the effect of phosphorescent and black lighting. We caught up with Scott Treleaven to uncover what lurks in the shadows at the Palais de Tokyo this month…"

Scott Treleaven, Fountain I (2012)

Ceramic, wood, paper, paint, phosphorescent liquid (activated under black light)

FRIDAY, JUNE 13 @ 6:15pm - TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toronto

Glitterbug preceded by The Salivation Army, introduced by Scott Treleaven

Prior to the screening of Derek Jarman’s Glitterbug, Toronto-born artist and filmmaker Scott Treleaven introduces his short film The Salivation Army (2002), a cinematic chronicle of the cult "queer pagan punk" zine he created in 1996.

http://tiff.net/programming/specialevents/summer2014/glitterbug-preceded-by-the-salivation-army-introduced-by-scott-treleaven

Scott Treleaven, The Inky Black Dark of the Superabundance (for DOS), 2019 Acrylic, gouache and permanent crayon 45.7 x 35 in (116 x 89 cm)

‘New Pagan Paintings’ - opens April 1  at Cooper Cole [West Gallery] 

Little Gods Again (2023) oil on canvas, 9 x 6”

Very grateful to the extraordinary Derek McCormack for the exhibition text below:  “Deathly - this is how flower paintings struck Treleaven for the longest time - the flowers under duress, their viewers under duress to value them. He was interested in dispersing this duress, so he started painting flowers himself, and this show features the nasturtiums, sunflowers, geraniums and morning glories that captured him. "I turned to flowers," he says, "to find out what made me resist painting them." There are nine paintings in 'New Pagan Paintings,' all finished in the last few years. The blooms are what you'll notice first, then the light: light's shining on them and light seems to be shining from them. They're alive - it’s animism, though that's not the point of the paintings; it's the starting point. If he grants that flowers have spirits, then what spirit will they grant him? If they have spirit, then surely part of their spirit is perverse. These paintings are pagan in that they're full of a particular spirit: petalled and petulant, hermaphroditic and horny - to me, they suggest what we might get if Joe Brainard paintings buggered Charles Burchfield paintings - paradise! These are cultured flowers with the souls of wildflowers or weeds. When he started painting them a few years ago, he realized that they'd been lurking for a long time. Even in his previous body of work - in his Jewel/Galaxy paintings, he'd drawn flowers on his canvases then painted over them, as if paint were soil, and as if every part of a flower were a seed. In 'New Pagan Paintings,' in these stellar paintings, flowers star: they swarm over the surface; indeed, they are the surface. I might also mention that there's also a painting of a berry, which shouldn't surprise any of Treleaven's admirers: everything in his work's fruity as fuck.” - Derek McCormack's most recent books are Castle Faggot (Semiotext(e)), a novel, and Judy Blame's Obituary (Pilot Press) a collection of essays on fashion and death. 

Scott Treleaven, Untitled (Pan's People) 2022 Acrylic, gouache, water soluble pastel, 48 x 36"