Scott Treleaven, To Dispel The Misery Of The World (2020) Acrylic, Gouache And Permanent Crayon On Canvas,

"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 Cimitero Drawing 3 (2010) Gouache, waxpastel and collage on paper 55.5 x 72.5 cm 21 7/8 x 28 1/2″

https://www.alisonjacquesgallery.com/exhibitions/62/works/image658/

Scott Treleaven, untitled (Mercury, in profile), 2017, c-print from 35mm double-exposure, 34 x 25" in silver painted frame

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

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 ‘I Put It to You, That Time Has Come Again’ (2017), gouache, acrylic, collage - diptych, each panel 41 x 41 inches

Scott Treleaven, Glad Tidings (Prospect Cottage), 2021

Gouache, acrylic, fluorescent pigment and water-soluble pastel on raw canvas, 60" X 48"

‘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 (confetti in Venice Biennale gutter/oak leaves), 2017 Unique chromogenic photo collage, 35mm negative prints, archival tape, artist frame

Scott Treleaven, Cemrenaz Uyguner, B. Wurtz

19 March - 1 May 2022

part of the Capture Photography Festival

UNIT 17  Vancouver BC https://www.unit17.org

pictured: Untitled (Paris workshop window / painting), 2021 Torn prints from analog 35mm negatives in artist frame