Download CVScott Treleaven (b. 1972, Canada) is considered a pivotal figure in 90s underground cinema and queer zine circles. The democratic tenants of these early practices continue to inform Treleaven’s conceptual and material choices, with collage functioning as a theoretical fulcrum: a gesture of insolence and serendipity, part of a perennial visual language of defiance. In Treleaven’s paintings and photographs the ‘cut-up’ is used to invoke the unruly entropic forces that herald possibility, upheaval and evolution; a strategy rooted in altered forms of consciousness, sexuality, neurodiversity, extreme experience, and the role of the imaginal social: specifically, recuperation of subcultural symbologies lost to commodification, and the restoration of l’esprit: the intrepid animating force. Focal points, linearity, narrative, spatial and temporal integrities are disrupted; through the cuts emerge meditations on perception, phenomenology, queer sublimity, utopianism, the aura of handmade objects, and the relocation of modernism and abstraction as sites of a transcendental, rather than purely formal, tradition.
Solo and group exhibitions include: FRONT International Triennial, Cleveland (2018); KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2018); XYZ Collective, Tokyo (2018); MOCA Tucson, Arizona (2018); Cooper Cole, Toronto (2020, 2018, 2017); Invisible-Exports, New York (2018, 2015, 2013, 2011); The Suburban, Milwaukee (2017); 80WSE, New York (2016); Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (2014); ICA, Philadelphia (2013); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2012); ICA London, UK (2012), and La Biennale de Montréal (2007). Treleaven’s zines are featured in publications including Showboat: Punk, Sex, Bodies (Dashwood 2016), The Magazine – Documents of Contemporary Art Series (MIT Press 2015), Queer Zines vol. 1 & 2 (Printed Matter, 2008, 2014), and In Numbers: Serial Publications by Artists Since 1955 (JRP Ringier 2009)
Scott Treleaven
Jackson Heights Cinema Syncretism
Jackson Heights Cinema Syncretism, 2019
Acrylic, gouache and permanent crayon on canvas
Scott Treleaven
Coney Island Das
Coney Island Das, 2020
Acrylic, gouache and permanent crayon on canvas
Scott Treleaven
To Dispel the Misery of the World
To Dispel the Misery of the World, 2020
Acrylic, gouache and permanent crayon on canvas
Scott Treleaven
The Roaring Stream
The Roaring Stream, 2020
Acrylic, gouache and permanent crayon on canvas
Scott Treleaven
NiteNiteKissKissLoveLove (for Gen)
NiteNiteKissKissLoveLove (for Gen), 2020
Acrylic, gouache and permanent crayon on canvas
Scott Treleaven
Wish-Fulfilling Jewels (for J.Giorno)
Wish-Fulfilling Jewels (for J.Giorno), 2020
Acrylic, gouache and permanent crayon on canvas
Scott Treleaven
Untitled (Mercury/kalanchoe)
Untitled (Mercury/kalanchoe), 2017
Unique chromogenic photo collage, 35mm negative prints, archival tape, artist frame
Scott Treleaven
Untitled (yellow purple sunlight/books)
Untitled (yellow purple sunlight/books), 2017
Unique photo collage from 35mm, negative prints, archival tape, artist frame
Scott Treleaven
Untitled (chair and white table/books, close up)
Untitled (chair and white table/books, close up), 2017
Unique photo collage from 35mm, negative prints, archival tape, artist frame
Scott Treleaven
Untitled (reversed canvas/sleeping blue parakeet)
Untitled (reversed canvas/sleeping blue parakeet), 2018
Unique photo collage from 35mm, negative prints, archival tape, artist frame
Scott Treleaven
Untitled (purple orange sky/Venice foyer)
Untitled (purple orange sky/Venice foyer), 2017
Unique photo collage from 35mm, negative prints, archival tape, artist frame
Scott Treleaven
Untitled (studio floor/Mercury sandal)
Untitled (studio floor/Mercury sandal), 2018
Unique photo collage from 35mm, negative prints, archival tape, artist frame
Scott Treleaven
Untitled (confetti in Venice Biennale gutter/oak leaves)
Untitled (confetti in Venice Biennale gutter/oak leaves), 2017
Unique photo collage from 35mm negative prints, archival tape, artist frame
Scott Treleaven
Untitled (wrapped antiquities/Paul’s wall)
Untitled (wrapped antiquities/Paul’s wall), 2018
Unique photo collage from 35mm, negative prints, archival tape, artist frame
Scott Treleaven
Untitled (curved water/Spanish Steps)
Untitled (curved water/Spanish Steps), 2018
Unique photo collage from 35mm, negative prints, archival tape, artist frame
Scott Treleaven
Untitled (Mercury, in profile)
Untitled (Mercury, in profile), 2017
C-print from 35mm double-exposure
Edition of 3, 2 AP
Scott Treleaven
Untitled
Untitled, 2017
Inkjet
Edition of 1, 1 AP
Diptych, 21.75 x 14.25 in each
Scotte Treleaven
Before Become Extinct
Before Become Extinct, 2017
Gouache, acrylic and collage on paper
Scott Treleaven
The Seeding Ship
The Seeding Ship, 2017
Gouache and acrylic on paper
Diptych
Scott Treleaven
Whales Over the Tuileries Hedge Maze
Whales Over the Tuileries Hedge Maze, 2017
Gouache, acrylic and collage on paper
Diptych
Scott Treleaven
Last Chance to See
Last Chance to See, 2016
Gouache, acrylic and collage on paper
Diptych
Scott Treleaven
Not Palaces (Ressemblement)
Not Palaces (Ressemblement), 2016
Gouache, acrylic and collage on paper
16 panels
