ANDY MESSERSCHMIDT
AGROCCULT SERIES
This series of 200 10x10 oil, acrylic, and mixed media paintings on paper revolves around the landscape acting as a stage for the playing out of occult phenomena. Recurring and archetypal mysticisms occur throughout many of Andy’s paintings. Notions of the traditional landscape being breathtaking and scenic become marred by an aberration resulting from some skewed form of mysticism. Referencing the occult’s fascination with utopian & dystopian scenarios is tantamount. Andy’s focus running throughout all these paintings is an examination of how utopian occult philosophies and beliefs came to be and how they are continuing to evolve or morph into more subliminal and progressively esoteric obfuscations
The use of supernatural agencies: The scepter - ornament in which to poke and propose the heavens – to make the crown crooneth. Occult phenomena and sites such as burning bushes, holy mountains, axis mundi, temples, prehistoric shaman lairs, eschatological architecture, lingams, Ka’aba squares, totem poles, maypoles, sweat lodges ,shaking tents, sacred trees, burial mounds, supernatural crop circles, steeples, henges, runes, megaliths, apparitions, holy cows, bodies at Jonestown, halos, cemeteries, tombstones, orbs, spontaneous combustion or spontaneous births, transportals, ley lines, geomancy, divining rods, mystics, witches, squatters, gypsy caravans, monastic sanctuaries, sheafs and stalks of foliage, the Manson clan, geodesic domes, hippie architecture and vagrant shelters, yurts, quinzees, crystalline fountains, cosmic trees, labyrinths, pyramids, feng shui or qi deflection in Eastern architecture, buttresses, spires, finials, nomad religious rites, seances, auratic evaporation, aghoripanthi shanties, stylites perches, majestic and mysterious animal totems and lycanthropy are a central recurring theme spread throughout Andy’s work.
Wall Display Artwork Titles
Wall One
Horizontal Row 1 (L to R)
1. Ginseng Poacher
2. Assoupissement
3. Attraction: Scenic Overlook
Horizontal Row 2 (L to R)
1. Downward Social Mobility (immigrant song)
2. Heteroscope
3. Same Season
4. A Rat's Transmission
5. Whispers on Dew
6. The Great Nano-Niche Party
7. A Song is a Song From a Song McKenna Says
8. Antipassatista
9. (sold) Puja
10. Like a Massage From a Masseuse With a Hangnail
11. Superstitious Response
12. Cro-magnon Cowboys
13. Pruned Pathologies
14. The Most Corroded Terminal of Masculinity
15. The Streamers & ramparts Postpone Display Behind the Knoll of Hidden Heights
16. Wilderness Meditation as Pile Driver
17. Accept Cookies
18. The Grave Was Never Meant to be a Shrine
19. The Circumambulations of a Sub-aesthetic Poet
20. I Never Really Got Art
21. War Correspondent (first generation)
Horizontal Row 3 (L to R)
1. Little Lust Land
2. Procedure Polished
3. Pettings of Paintings
4. B'ak'tuns Before Man (revel in shapes)
5. Pavillion Nomme Sansquartier (flag called no quarter)
6. Immaculate Graves Me Equals Eternal Rest
7. Myrrh-maid
8. Bleached Bone Bog Blues
9. Go Bye-bye
10. A Digestible Elysium
11. Tudor Wattle & Door
12. (sold) Let's Go Tell Mom
13. Armchair Ethnography
14. Early Monumentalized Landscape (stalagmite forms)
15. The Masochistic Hunting Grounds of Ego & Libido
16. The Mongrol Undergoes Forced Sterilization
17. Draft Animal
18. The Raelian Extraterrestrial Embassy
19. Bloods
20. Giants
21. Saturnine
Horizontal Row 4 (L to R)
1. Fundraising The Second Coming
2. Deadlift Brooklyn
3. Kefir Ingest
4. Lhnbyrde
5. Full Quiver - No Blood
6. Prejudice/Postjudice
7. Offering of an Adversary
8. (sold) As if Sun Hail Upon Starlets
9. Pyramid At Its Most Pre-pubescent
10. Dersu Uzala
11. The Surfeit Stomp
12. Prickle-Vision II
13. Fear of Annihilation (FOA movement)
14. Wrote You a Love Letter But Pitched It
15. Dude Directionless (trakita)
16. The City Fair & Furnished
17. Mate Material
18. A Professor of Dark Collusions
19. Piss on a Dirt Floor Now Makes It a Mud Floor
20. Crooked Candles
21. Yin Xi
Horizontal Row 5 (L to R)
1. Gorgons Gone Wild
2. Easter Egg Hunt
3. As if Night Progresses
Wall Two
Horizontal Row 1 (L to R)
1. The Harassment is Merely Virtual
2. Leaders Limping
3. Scapegoating - The Shadow Thereof
4. Any Major Guru Will Tell You
5. No More Frontiers
6. Chopsfest
Horizontal Row 2 (L to R
1. Call for Artists
2. Images X Exponents
3. Temples on Mars
4. Anthropophagi
5. The First Molecules, Poking Through the Chaotic Strata Belched Upon the Plain Their Leftover Detritus & Ogres Exaltation of the Ego Garbed in the Wreath Bunting Burn Pile
6. Feasting, Fighting, Fun!
7. Guru With the Dirty Aura
8. Tan Line on Your Wedding Day
9. The Admixture of the Gods Had Diminished by That Point
10. Web Wave Function
11. According to a Standard We Are Too Lowly to Discern
12. Consigliere to the Suits
13. To Kick the Shifting of the Sands - Appellate Pipes of Diamond Dust in Hand
14. Stylites
15. The Plasticity is Strong (plasticities stronghold)
16. Hulk Hide
17. Balsam Mountain
18. An Attempt at Love That Inevitably Destroys Its Target
19. Mourning Talk Show
20. Alpenglo
21. Act of God
22. A Hymn of Praise to Ra When He Riseth in the Eastern Horizon of Heaven
23. Jaggarnath
24. Cuddles with Corporations & Cortez
Horizontal Row 3 (L to R)
1. Enochian
2. Call of duty
3. Horizon as Ontophage
4. Megafauna
5. Hollow-gram
6. The Sun Festooned High Above the Clouds - Wrinkles Wrought Around the Occluded Oculus - Agaric Broth Hag's Mane the Haunch of Hound - the Ways of the Dark Ages
7. Constellate Into Visibility
8. Magic Jack
9. A Life in Graven Images & Idolatry
10. The Resplendent Robes of the Combsom
11. Fire TV Cube on I49 Arkansas
12. Hygenesis Says the Church
13. Taiga, 1934
14. Surrender Yourself to Love
15. Frackalline/Fragmentine
16. Toxicity Levels Were High
17. You Too Can Distort Space Time
18. It's Lame That They Would Come by Spaceship
19. Many Mafias
20. Pompeii Tooeii
21. Mother & Child Out Shopping
22. Bikini Draped on Poolside Furniture
23. An Unpopular Spring Break
24. Art Spores
Horizontal Row 4 (L to R)
1. John Frum Makes Good on His Promise
2. Reports of a Wonderous Barbarian Realm
3. Herding with Wording
4. Lakes of Jupiter
5. Unhewn, Violent, Drunk on Topaz Wine
6. Herfur
7. Khaibit
8. Tiger Blood - & There be no Desecration Even on The Ground About The Tomb
9. The Narcissist's Defense
10. Too Long in The Bush (the ring cycle)
11. Girl Feeding Chickens
12. Dreams Are Vision Poems (pond at dusk)
13. Coronations on Steamboats
14. All The Kings Phlegm
15. Sun is Sick
16. Chessboard of Archlenders
17. Violent Redress of Perceived Wrongs
18. Life: The Sandbox Game
19. Amazonz
20. Nouvelle Vague
21. Heradling Serums in an Archaic Urn She Laid Us All Under a Parasol of Rhapsodies Stretching a Diffusive Mote of Ecstasy Before Our Eyes
22. Filter, Filter, Filter, Filter, Filter, Filter, Filter
23. Emerald Lake, Cuetico
24. Diamondhead
Horizontal Row 5 (L to R)
1. Glamping
2. Post-colonial Dictator: I Have Eaten Human Meat. It is Very Salty. Even More Salty Than Leopard Meat.
3. Harvest hogs
4. Spook Appropriation
5. Birthing Ritual of Shapeshifters
6. The Cubit was Instated as The Measurement of Choice
7. Mail-order Magic
Wall Three
Horizontal Row 1 (L to R)
1. Mastered Their Environment Then Disappeared
Horizontal Row 2 (L to R)
1. Grave Goods (garage sale upon a tomb)
2. Seppuku (guilt cultures solution)
3. Ugandan Puppeteer
4. Adi Shankara
5. Humanunkind
6. Prior to the Age of Fuels
7. Festivals of the Fiends
8. Damanhur Sect: Rhizomorphic Incense
9. (sold) Bonnie Bonnie Lass
10. Element 115 & the Cross-breeding program
11. Catch Up with Vision/Ketchup with Vision
12. Geyser/Geezer
13. Geddan Dance
14. Existing as if Full-blown Poet
Horizontal Row 3 (L to R)
1. Rearview Mirror
2. Uncle Cookiefoot's Deer Mount
3. The Nation
4. Ruler Lacking the Mandate of Heaven
5. Neural Canyon (abridged)
6. Most Have a Foreign Complex
7. Bahz'i zhe 'oon
8. I Was a Former Neurotic
9. (sold) Clearest Diatribe
10. In The Year 539628002 BCE a Trilobite Died & Left its Body - No Humans Were on Hand to Record The Departure
11. Greasy Gold
12. Index of Refractions & Mirages
13. Harbingers & Heralds of Millenarian Mormons, Methodists…Midwesterners
14. The Stepping Stone at The Pillars of The Pillars of The Pillars of The Pillars Supporting The Pillars of The Pillar
Horizontal Row 4 (L to R)
1. Drone strike!
2. Methedral
3. Limp Totem
4. Sawanih
5. Unsuccessful hunting
6. It is Better to be a Good Man Than to Darken The Hills With Your Ponies
7. Armistice
8. They Said to Self-criticize & Repent Through Immolation
9. The Mezzofauna Was Detected and…
10. Cult Group Grope
11. The Greatest Breach of The Great Wall Came by Bribe
12. Dulled Neurons Tour
13. The Vapors Had Receded Taking Their Station Under a Cerulean Sky
14. The Cave is Too Crowded - Abide ye a While
Horizontal Row 5 (L to R)
1. Clawed the Soil
2. Happening Upon a Building At Medium Speed
3. McMimicry