CPW presents the exhibition Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate 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.
The exhibition is accompanied by a limited-edition artist’s book published by CPW and produced by 1080PRESS.
Qiana Mestrich : Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate
January 31 – May 10, 2026
CPW Kingston
25 Dederick St.
Kingston, NY 12401
Thursday to Sunday 11am – 5pm
Free admission
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