Demetri Broxton
at The Guardhouse
Main Entrance, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture
May 22 – August 17, 2025
FOR-SITE is honored to present Demetri Broxton at The Guardhouse as part of The Guardhouse Program, which is designed to serve three artists annually, each of whom will create a temporary art installation inside a historic, former military guard station at the main entrance to Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture. This program activating The Guardhouse is free and open to the public, viewable through the windows 24 hours a day.
Demetri Broxton’s installation at The Guardhouse, Just Beyond the Waters (2025), reveals how family members, whether named or unknown, become stewards of ancestral knowledge. Through intricate craft and profound intention, Broxton’s work reclaims the past as an active force that reshapes the present and empowers futures defined by liberation, connection, and ancestral power.
This installation is linked to the themes explored in FOR-SITE’s exhibition Black Gold: Stories Untold at Fort Point National Historic Site from June 6 to November 2, 2025.
Demetri Broxton at The Guardhouse is made possible thanks to generous support from the ARB Fund with presentation support from Wayee Chu and Ethan Beard, Jill Cowan Davis, Corinne Dixon, Paul Henderson, and Clara Kamunde.
Demetri Broxton, He Who Stands at the Crossroads, 2024; Japanese & Czech glass beads, sequins, cowrie shells, quartz, brass elements, 24k gold plated brass, pressed glass, Swarovski crystal, wooden beads, rayon chainette, wool, serigraph printed on Japanese sateen cotton, mounted on birch board; Courtesy of the artist and Corinne Dixon.
The installation is free and open to the public, viewable through the windows 24 hours a day.
The Guardhouse is located at the main entrance of Fort Mason Center.
About the Artist
Demetri Broxton is a Bay Area artist, independent curator, and the Executive Director of Root Division in San Francisco. Born and raised in Oakland, CA, he earned a BFA at UC Berkeley with an emphasis in painting and an MA in Museum Studies from San Francisco State University. His artwork has been exhibited internationally and most recently at ICA San José, Art Gallery of Alberta, de Young Museum, Crocker Art Museum, Kala Art Institute, and the Norton Museum of Art. Broxton’s artwork is held in several private and public collections including the Monterey Art Museum, de Young Museum, and Crocker Art Museum. He is represented by Patricia Sweetow Gallery in Los Angeles, CA.
Demetri Broxton at The Guardhouse is presented by FOR-SITE in partnership with Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture. The Guardhouse Program is made possible thanks to generous support from the ARB Fund.