The 50th-anniversary year of Surrey Art Gallery continues with the 2025 version of its annual juried exhibition.
Showcased this spring are diverse works of Lower Mainland artists in ARTS 2025, a collaborative initiative between SAG and the Arts Council of Surrey for more than four decades.
From May 3 to July 26, 50 works are featured on walls of Surrey Arts Centre including painting, drawing, mixed media, sculpture, fibre art, photography and new media, in five categories of the competition.
Gallery-goers can vote for the People’s Choice Award, among other winners to be announced July 5 during a Summer Opening Art Party, 6 to 9 p.m.
This year's jury members were Brian Howell (photography-based artist and former Surrey Now newspaper staff photographer), Jason Wright (artist and Kwantlen Polytechnic University Fine Arts faculty member) and Alanna Edwards (Surrey Art Gallery Curator of Art and Education Initiatives).
“We were privileged to have taken part in the jury of the ARTS 2025 exhibition and were overwhelmed at the breadth of talent, ideas, and subject matter,” the jury team said in a statement.
“We attempted to make selections that both represented the spirit of the exhibition and the scope of materials, techniques, and practices that were on display.”
On June 5, artists featured in ARTS 2025 will share reflections about their artworks and wider practices at an Artist Open Mic, part of Surrey Art Gallery Association’s free Thursday Artist Talk series.
Also this spring, until June 8, A Tangled Thicket features the art of Z·inc Artist Collective members Willa Downing, Lesley Garratt, Cora Li-Leger and Claire Moore, with a related Family Art Party planned on Sunday, June 1 as a drop-in event, noon to 4 p.m.
Starting June 28, SAG's main summer exhibit will be 10 and 10: Story of Stories, a 50th-anniversary exhibition that pairs permanent collection artworks acquired from the first 10 years of collecting (1975 to 1985) and the last 10 years (2014 to 2024), through themes of landscape, architecture, portraiture and movement.
Also opening June 28 is Experiments in Solitude, a chance to experience analogue photography, videography, cyanotypes and more from Brittney Appleby and MV Williams.
Admission is free at Surrey Art Gallery, at Bear Creek Park (13750 88 Ave., Surrey).
