Scott Treleaven Untitled (zinniinae, Ipomoea) 2022

Scott Treleaven, photocollage (2018) torn 35mm negative prints 5 ½ x 4”, unique –– wrapped antiquities, National Archaeological Museum, Athens / photocopies on studio wall, Paris

Scott Treleaven, 'Fountain 2' (2014)

Slate, paint, water pump, archival photo prints, polypropylene, adhesive

Scott Treleaven – untitled (reflection in antique scrying mirror / marble figure behind glass, Cimitero Monumentale, Milan), 2019 unique photo collage from 35mm negative prints, 14.75 x 10 cm

Scott Treleaven, Astral Bedroom (Venice), 2009

cprint from 35mm analog negative, 79.5 x 45cm

Scott Treleaven, The Roaring Stream, 2020 acrylic, gouache and permanent crayon on canvas

48 x 36 in (121.9 x 91.4 cm)

Scott Treleaven, 'Nomadology' (2016) gouache, acrylic, pastel, and collage

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, To Dispel the Misery of the World (2020) acrylic, gouache and permanent crayon on canvas, 38 X 36"

Untitled (2017) Scott Treleaven

torn photocollage from 35mm negative prints

51/2 x 4″, unique

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