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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