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DISCARDED BUT NOT LOST:
Photography and Film by Ann Marsden and Ann Prim
May 21 - July 17
Join Us For An Opening Reception: May 21 from 5:30 to 8:30 PM
2446 University Avenue West, Suite 100, Saint Paul
IFP Media Arts is pleased to present Discarded but Not Lost, a collection of new work by artists Ann Marsden and Ann Prim. Their low-key meditative imagery extracts stories from objects that have been discarded or overlooked. They cross-pollinate and inspire each other to show us that what we are familiar with we cease to see until it is seen and presented anew by another.
Ann Marsden has long been a member of the Twin Cities photo community, primarily as a commercial photographer, but she has always pursued her private personal aesthetic. This will be her first art exhibition of her reflective and insightful work in 20 years. Ann Prim began her career in still photography and later moved into film. This will be her first photo exhibition in over 10 years and the first in the Twin Cities. Her short experimental film “The Afterling” will also be screened.
Ann Marsden is a native Minnesotan who picked up her first camera at age fifteen and has yet to set it down. She has had a prolific 27 year career as a photographer. Her camera has captured a diverse clientèle; Tiny Tim to Mikhail Baryshnikov, Al Gore to President Obama, Mini Pearl to Amy Adams. For the past five years in addition to her commercial work Ann has been creating photographic journals that reflect world events and her personal ruminations.
Ann Prim is a musician, photographer and filmmaker born in the south, raised in Florida and Mississippi. She studied film at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Cal Arts and finished her academic art adventures at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
After spending nearly twenty years in Boston where she worked as an established musician signed to A&M Records and an established photographer winning a New England Foundation of the Arts Grant and participating in the Photographic Resource Center's New England Biennial, she moved to Minnesota.
For the past five years her creative focus has been film. Her short film, Deer Hill Road was an official 2009 selection of the Independents’ Film Festival (IFF), the Fargo Film Festival and was selected for the 2009 MNTV broadcast. Her current short “A Brief Conversation” was selected for the 2010 Minneapolis Saint Paul International Film Festival.
 
China In Transition
Dan Dennehy - Guizhou
Priscilla Briggs - Fortune
August 6 – September 24
Opening Reception : Friday, August 6, 5:30 – 8:30 PM
China’s phenomenonal economic growth has been accomplished by the blurring of the ideological boundaries between communism and capitalism. This financial might has put the Chinese people on the fast track to modern consumerism, leaving an agrarian identity behind.
Photographer Priscilla Briggs explores China’s values and identity as they are shaped and reflected within the context of economic systems. Her work in this exhibition addresses China’s consumer explosion as evidenced by its giant shopping malls and modern advertising. She also briefly shows us a facet of China’s export manufacturing and marketing. Her study of the brassiere district illustrates how manufacturing shapes the social landscape of China.
This visible surface is starkly contrasted with Dan Dennehy’s photographs from remote regions of southwestern China. As head photographer at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, he was part of the Asian Arts research group that traveled here to study and record the extraordinary handcrafted textiles and jewelry of the Miao people. Their way of life is steadily being eroded by the explosive growth and spread of modernization.
Also at the reception: A sneak preview screening of Fresh Filmmaker winner Sarah Jean Kruchowski’s “Jerry Schwingle and the Happiness Well.”
Join us for our OPEN HOUSE in celebration of MidCity Fest with screenings & sample classes, August 7, Noon-6:00, 2446 Univeristy Avenue West, Suite 100, St. Paul, 651-644-1912
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