︎ Do Not Fold, Spindle Or Mutilate @ CPW
On View January 31 – May 10, 2026
Opening January 31, 2026, 5-8PM
CPW Kingston
25 Dederick Street
Kingston, NY 12401
This exhibition features images by Qiana Mestrich, the recipient of the CPW 2025 Saltzman Prize for Emerging Photographer of the Year. The prestigious distinction was awarded to Mestrich by a jury consisting of Dawoud Bey, Stephen Shore, and Lucy Sante.
CPW’s new exhibition includes works from the artist’s ongoing collage series, The Reinforcements, which Mestrich began in 2023 to address the absence in visual archives of women of color in the 1970s and ‘80s American workplace. Through found and personal images, Mestrich constructs a speculative archive that places women of color at the center of familiar office environments–fax machines, telephones, office furniture–bringing to light the important roles they have held in the workplace while critiquing their erasure from its visual history.
Also on view at CPW:
Ocean Vuong’s Sống
Nona Faustine’s What My Mother Gave Me
Jiatong Lu: Nowhere Land