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Writings from
St. Louis Group Meetings:

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Andrew Torch
Fine Artist
Co-founder of the St. Louis Surrealist Group (STLSG)
Saint Louis, Missouri


2013 - 2020: 'Poetry Scores Exhibitions', Artist and co-curator; Saint Louis, MO

2014: "Desire in a Book' Surrealist Exhibition; Paris, France

2014: 'Hydrolith II' (published book) Oyster Moon Press; contributor and co-editor

2012-13: 'Alpine Phantoms Exhibition', Bodelwyddan Castle, Wales, U.K.,and collage in the published book 'Alpine Phantoms', editor Neil Coombs


May 2012: Poetry Scores Art Invitational 'Ever-Ready Bank Accounts' by Wole Soyinka (Nigeria) - Mad Art Gallery, Saint Louis, MO

POETRY SCORES

April 2012: Thomas Jefferson Visual Art Gallery; International Surrealist Exhibition: 'Desire in a book'

2010: 'Hydrolith: Surrealist Research & Investigations', Oyster Moon Press; contributor. Available at independent bookstores.



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'SOMNAMBULIST FOOTPRINTS' A Collection of Surrealist Tales

Currently available from Oyster Moon Press, Amazon or independent book shops in the USA and the UK. Somnabulist Footprints contains Surrealist short stories and illustrations from: Eric Bragg, Dale Houstman, Daniel Boyer, Andrew Torch, J. Karl Bogartte, Mariela Arzadun, Matt Rounsville, Mattias Forshage, Merl, Parry Harnden, Philip Kane, Ribitch, C Shibek.

Note: The St. Louis Surrealist Group, NOR myself, post to indymedia sites (none of them). We have not since our original response of support to Franklin Rosemont's Lamantia obit.






'Timekeeper' Mixed media assemblage (2017)

'Facade of Surrealism' Oil painting


'Untitled' Mixed media assemblage w/found objects (2014)


'Rare Climate, Rare Climax' Oil painting


'Senorita Dido' Watercolor (2023)


'Good Whiskey Blues' Oil painting



'The General Takes a Wife' Oil painting



Larger box constructions...floor or pedestal installation


'Rarebit" A storybook of collages built into an antique silverware box with multiple layers corresponding to the story in the book (ask for more photos)

A book page.




'Frankensteinna' (lighting options, optimal installation is one foot off the floor and at least one foot from a wall)




'Black & Blued, Tar & Feathered'
Surrealiste construction-box with found objects, bird feathers, burlap, magnifying spectacle, dirt, dice and dominoes.


'Le Massacre', Mixed media assemblage on glass and bone



'La Revolution Surrealiste', Surrealist box construction with found objects


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