Immersion: Premium Tales of Assimilation in the Post-Communist Eastern Bloc Opening Reception

It’s the early ’90’s. Communism has fallen, the president is a playwright and the wild east is open for business. Fearless western twenty-somethings head east with the promise of opportunity, prosperity, and cultural awakenings in a not-so-brave visa-free world where conversational English teachers make more than doctors, beer is cheaper than water, and law enforcement is entrepreneurial. In his first graphic novel, Adam Trachtman chronicles his immersion in a new homeland undergoing a most absurd, Kafkaesque transformation.

Books from Wanderlife Gallery artists will also be available for puchase, including Elizabeth Kelly, Brian Spies, Dafna Steinberg, KT Butterfield.