"Meet the Artist" with Regina DeLuise, in conversation with Saskia Kahn

On Thursday, June 26, we welcome Regina DeLuise and Saskia Kahn to “Meet the Artist” night at CPW. Join photographer Regina DeLuise for a conversation on the nature of large-format and palladium picture making, sustaining a photographic practice over decades, and the experience of publishing her first monograph, The Hands of My Friends (Saint Lucy Books, 2024) Through this book, DeLuise brings to light her long-held belief that “loving what you love will lead you to your life.” Moderated by Saskia Kahn, this discussion will offer insight into DeLuise’s artistic journey and process. Books will be available for purchase. This event will be live-streamed on CPW’s YouTube page at 6pm.

Join us every Thursday evening at CPW, when we host illuminating talks with local and visiting artists. “Meet the Artist” allows the public to get to know new work, to hear about artistic processes, and to meet friends and other local artists. The evening takes place at CPW’s gallery at 25 Dederick Street in Kingston, NY. It is free and open to the public. Coffee, tea, and snacks are served. “Meet the Artist” is made possible by a generous grant from the Arnold and Augusta Newman Foundation.

Guggenheim Fellow and Faculty Emerita at Maryland Institute College of Art, Regina DeLuise has worked in the medium of photography for four decades. She continues to shoot film and work with an 8 x 10, large format view camera. Her work is represented in private and public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY, Brooklyn Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Smithsonian Museum of American History, Houston Museum of Fine Art and the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal.

DeLuise was represented by Bonni Benrubi Gallery in NYC for 25 years and has exhibited her work nationally and internationally since 1990. She has been awarded residencies at the Bogliasco Foundation, Bogliasco , Italy, MASS MoCA in North Adam, Massachusetts, and was the 2018 Meredith Moody Fellow at Yaddo in Saratoga Springs, NY. Her work was included in Migrations and Meaning(s) in Art curated by Dr. Deborah Willis in January 2020 and has had two solo exhibitions in NYC, 2022 and 2024 at Rick Wester Fine Art where she is currently represented.
Regina DeLuise’s first monograph, The Hands of My Friends was published by Saint Lucy Books in 2024 and has been reviewed in such publications as The Guardian, Lenscratch, Border Crossings, Aesthetica Magazine.

Saskia Kahn (b. Brooklyn, NY) is a photographer and educator based in Baltimore, MD. She earned her MFA in Photography, Media, and Society and is a Professor of Photography at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, and BmoreArt, and exhibited by NYC Parks. Kahn’s practice blends portraiture and alternative processes to explore them

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