Collection: Fine Art

On View at Chambers

Garçon en Fleurs

Amelia C. Williams

This show marks the first public exhibition of the ongoing photographic series Garçon En Fleurs by Amelia C. Williams. Loosely translated as 'boys among flowers' or 'boys in bloom,' each portrait is a simple collage created in-camera, with Black men and abstract flowers photographed together in a single frame.

Branching from Williams’ mixed media collection ‘Flowers.’, Garçon En Fleurs expands the series into photography—highlighting the next avenue of the work through portraiture. The series explores softness, femininity, vulnerability, and beauty within the Black community, often hidden by the stereotypes placed on Black masculinity.

About Amelia

Amelia C. Williams is a biracial mixed-media artist whose work explores identity, race, and mental health. Rooted in creating space for people to feel, her work invites reflection through photography, collage, and installation.

Opening Reception / Artist Talk / Q+A 

Thur Aug 20 

5-7pm

The show runs August 20, 2026 - September 20, 2026

Previous Exhibits

Qiana Mestrich

The Reinforcements (2023-ongoing)

September 20, 2025- December 31st, 2025

The Reinforcements is a series of photo collages that visualizes the labor history of Black and immigrant women of color in America’s corporate workplace. Inspired by archival images of my mother, who worked in sales at the Rugol TradingCorporation’s NYC offices in the late 1960s, The Reinforcements are part of a larger digital archive started as a visual investigation of evidence of the office labor of women of color during the information age.

Qiana Mestrich (b.1977) is an interdisciplinary artist and photo historian whose
work critically engages with themes of Black, mixed-race identity, motherhood/mothering and women's corporate labor. Informed by her upbringing as the daughter of immigrants from Panama and Croatia, Mestrich's artistic practice is complemented by contributions to the field of contemporary photography history. Her artwork has garnered international attention, with exhibitions at the RAY Fotografieprojekte Frankfurt/RheinMain and London Art Fair's Photo50.

A graduate of the ICP-Bard College MFA program, Mestrich’s work has been recognized through awards like the 2025 Saltzman Prize and CPW Vision Award, as well as the 2022 Magnum Foundation's Counter Histories grant for her research on women of color in the corporate workplace. Her solo exhibition on this body of work, The Reinforcements, was previously on view at Baxter St in the Lower East Side.