Christopher Wassell & Phil Beaumont in conversation with Bread & Salt Gallery Director Thomas DeMello

Both Artists have separate solo exhibitions on view March-April 2025

this conversation took place in March 2025

Christopher Wassell (b 1969) is an abstract painter living and working in Tijuana BC.
In his upcoming exhibition AMNESIA new oil paintings explore themes of figuration, dramatic narrative and the impermanence of memory.
A smeared medley of crashed cars, horse parts and ghostly human forms populate this current body of work which reads like a storyboard of clouded half-memories and partially forgotten dreams.

Born in Fradley, England, Phil Beaumont bounced across the Atlantic living in Montreal, Canada, then Birmingham, England, and finally landing in California. 
He served as the Director of the Museum School for more than two decades, until recently stepping aside to spend more time on art and music.
Always an avid traveler and photographer, Phil enjoys capturing details that can be easily missed. 
Almost by accident, he began capturing these details in long form, through still frame videos that allow the viewer to pause and stay with a moment. An antidotal response to the rapid consumption of information and images on social media sites, these prolonged photographs, or ‘long photos’, often capture incidental moments that pass through the frame, such as an off screen rock thrown into a lake, snowflakes rising and falling in a vortex, or a swimmer held in frame by a river’s current. 
Notar - Notice - Kizuku invites the audience to share some of these moments

this is a conversation with
Hugo Crosthwaite and Bread & Salt Curator Thomas DeMello from 2021

Born in Tijuana in 1971, Hugo Crosthwaite grew up in the coastal town of Rosarito, Baja California, 10 miles south of the international border. A graduate of San Diego State University in 1997 with a BA in Applied Arts and Sciences, Crosthwaite is a draftsman, often using pencil or charcoal, who focuses on the figure. He works in a linear fashion, allowing drawings to develop with great detail. All the work is created with improvisation; narratives developing as works are created. 

Richard Keely speaking with Bread & Salt Curator and Artist Thomas DeMello

Bread & Salt CuratorThomas DeMello in Conversation with Artist Mathieu Gregoire about his beginnings as an artist and his past exhibition in ICE gallery.

this is an unconventional episode for us but we could not pass up the chance to talk with Mathieu

you can find out more about his work at https://mathieugregoire.net or visit the ICE gallery website https://icegallerysd.com to learn more about Michael James Armstrong who is the Owner and Curator for ICE gallery visit https://www.michaeljamesarmstrong.com or check out https://www.instagram.com/starberrysweet/?hl=en

Artist Marisol Rendón in conversation with Bread & Salt Curator Thomas DeMello

Artist Yasmine Kasem in conversation with Bread & Salt Curator Thomas DeMello

A Conversation with Joe Yorty and Joe Cantrell with Bread & Salt Curator Thomas DeMello about the Exhibition "I ate and I ate and nothing happened" 

On View in the Bread & Salt Main Gallery through June 19, 2022

Neil Kendricks is a filmmaker, artist, photographer, writer, educator Kendricks earned a Master’s degree in Television, Film and New Media from San Diego State University in 2006. His award-winning short films like 2002’s Loop have screened at numerous international film festivals including the Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films, the Comic-Con International Independent Film Festival, the 2002 Havana Film Festival, and a special short-film screening at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival’s American Pavilion.

Kendricks’ photography has also been exhibited at the San Diego Museum of Art, the African-American Museum of Fine Arts, London’s Royal College of Art, and many other venues. His first solo photography exhibition, Bruised Eye Candy was shown at San Diego’s now-defunct Spacecraft gallery in February 2008. Kendricks also produced, production designed and storyboarded media theorist Jordan Crandall’s film, Heatseeking, which was shown at inSITE 2000 and exhibited in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s BitStream exhibition, the first digital-arts exhibition shown at a major American art museum.

Conversation with Artist Tatiana Ortiz-Rubio 

Union Tribune Article

Marcos Ramírez ERRE in Conversation with Bread & Salt Curator Thomas DeMello

About the Artist (from the MASS MoCA Website)

you can View his Current Exhibition through June 2021 At MASS MoCA 

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