11/8/25 - 2/21/26
Brandon Eugene Secrest’s exhibition Threshold is a site-specific installation exploring the viscerality of site and material through interventions and environments throughout the Bread & Salt gallery and building. The main floor gallery space hosts a monumental painting from Secrest’s No Masters series, standing six feet tall and spanning over fifty feet in length. The installation engages often overlooked areas of the gallery space, such as the ramp at the entrance of the gallery, where Secrest installed three custom wood benches facing a window built from steel, mylar space blanket, and wood. Beyond the main floor gallery, the exhibition directs viewers through a dark room theatre, into a dead-end room, up a flight of stairs, through the second-story hallway, and back down a second set of stairs, forming a loop through the gallery. Secrest’s mixed-media installation plays off the existing architectural features of the building, incorporating sculpture, woodworking, and painting into a cohesive environment. The core of Brandon Eugene Secrest’s explorations in this built environment is the mutable and evolving impressions of the viewer as they experience the space. Brandon Eugene Secrest is a multidisciplinary artist, woodworker, contractor, and teacher living and working in San Diego, California. Secrest was Bread & Salt’s IMPACT Artist in Residence in 2024. He has exhibited at the Cleveland Institute of Art, San Diego State University, City College, San Diego, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Escondido Arts Partnership, and more.
