Slugo Maneshevitz Gagarin, May 1993

For Immediate Release:

The Main Street Museum Of Art is very pleased to announce its Grand Opening
in the old Lenas Lunch Building at 42 South Main Street, White River Junction, Vermont
The work of Slugo Maneshevitz Gagarin will be shown in the newly Whitewashed, Storefront Gallery
and some kind of Informal Entertainment will take place in the adjoining studio space; when?

On Saturday, The 29th Of May, 1993 from Five til Nine in the Evening.

Mr. Gagarin has been working diligently for a great many months preparing a series of New Hand Colored Photographic Prints for our enjoyment. His subjects are chosen from the diverse Flora and Fauna of the various Regions of the Country that he has visited on Road Trips, primarily the Middle-West and the East, and they represent a kind of eclectic cross-section of our National Life, apprehended with an eye for the exotic, and composed with an Unerring Sense of Consonance. Many of the prints are framed with Fur, some with Birch Bark and other colorful borders. The matting and presentation of these pieces are Consummately Artistic and the frames are Ponderous And Impressive. Much of the wood trim for the construction of these Architectonics have been made by hand with a router by the Artist. Some of these prints are very large and all make impressive additions to the creative atmosphere of our little “Museum”. Truly Fine Art Photography.

Although making his home in Boston, Massachusetts, Mr. Gagarin takes up his summer residency in the basement of The Main Street Museum where he has a cot, and more than sufficient labor awaiting him frame-making and caring for our Substantial Colony of Feral Cats. Early in his life a tragic victim of aphasia, in sugaring season of last year, the artist was discovered wandering over Dunham Hill in Hartland, Vt., having lost all knowledge of his past life. It is asserted that Mr. Gagarin is of Vermont ancestry, both Yankee and Native American. The name Slugo Gagarin was chosen at his whim. Local families took an interest in him, and his bulging portfolio of photographs, and through their ministrations they hope he will find his way to a successful resolution of his Afflictions, as well as turn a tidy profit for all involved.

Mr. Gagarin has exhibited his photographs in 1993 and 1992 at the Open Gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1991 at a former American Legion Hall in South Boston, Massachusetts and in 1986, a series of Russian photographs at Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa.

He will be married at Cedar Rapids, Iowa in the coming Fall.