Scott Treleaven

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

Scott Treleaven Do You Have to Have a Body?, 2010 Quadtych: Pastel, crayon, pencil, house paint, and gouache on cardboard 16 x 60.5 inches

Scott Treleaven, Untitled (cosmos), 2022 acrylic, gouache, oil, wax pastel, fluorescent pigment, on canvas 30 × 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.

Scott Treleaven ‘Untitled (after after cease to exist)’, 2015 pastel on paper 51 x 39 inches

"Expressionist gestures being as dead a motif as the interred bodies...are their own luxurious reward. Treleaven's drawings offer a High Romantic rumination. Mortality and memory are essential engines for the meaningful satisfactions of sensual play." -- Christopher Knight, LA Times (July 9, 2010)

Scott Treleaven Cimitero Drawing 9 (2010) Wax pastel, flashe and collage on paper 29 X 21.3"

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, 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, Untitled (studio paint rag / F. in Milan apartment) 2022 Torn prints from 35mm analog negatives, 6 x 4”, unique