SEVENTEENTH SURREAL SALON COMING JANUARY 2025

Surreal Salon - the annual international exhibition celebrating the pop-surrealist/lowbrow movement - returns to Baton Rouge Gallery (“BRG”) for its 17th year this January! The exhibition, held in partnership with the LSU School of Art, will feature the work of artists from across the globe, each hand-picked by the show’s Special Guest Juror, Evan Pricco (Editor-in-Chief for Juxtapoz), via a blind jurying process.

For more than a decade, Surreal Salon has featured paintings, photography, ceramics, textiles, mixed media works, and more. Now, BRG is happy to welcome artists across all media and nationalities to submit works to be considered for this unique exhibition. The entry portal will open soon with a deadline for submissions of October 18, 2024.

More than $2,000 in cash prizes are awarded in conjunction with the exhibition and the artist whose work is selected as Best in Show is also be profiled in an online editorial by Juxtapoz.

Our sincere gratitude to Lynne Petit Pisto, John G. Turner & Jerry G. Fischer, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana, BREC, and Juxtapoz for their continued support of Surreal Salon and Baton Rouge Gallery.

SURREAL SALON 17 SPECIAL GUEST JUROR: EVAN PRICCO

Over the years, Surreal Salon has had the privilege of enlisting the eyes of well-known and respected artists and individuals to curate the works featured in each iteration of Surreal Salon. Previous jurors have included Greg Escalante (co-founder of Juxtapoz), Andrew Hosner (Thinkspace), and internationally-renowned artists such as Ron English, Camille Rose Garcia, Beth Cavener, Elizabeth McGrath, Dan Quintana, Carrie Ann Baade, Marco Mazzoni, and Greg “Craola” Simkins. That tradition continued with the exhibition’s 17th year as Juxtapoz Magazine Editor-in-Chief Evan Pricco steps into the role (thanks in part to a partnership with the Louisiana State University School of Art).

Pricco has been the Editor of the world’s leading international contemporary art magazine, Juxtapoz, based in San Francisco, California, since 2006. In 2017, he curated Juxtapoz x Superflat with Takashi Murakami at the Vancouver Art Gallery Museum. He has edited over 17 books for Juxtapoz and hosts the Radio Juxtapoz podcast while continuing to curate exhibitions around the world. He has been a co-curator on the international travelling exhibitions, BEYOND THE STREETS, which serves as an overview of both historic and contemporary moments in the graffiti and street art genres, with the most recent showcases in London and Shanghai in 2023 featuring his curatorial work. In Los Angeles in 2024, he produced and co-curated the works on paper exhibition, "I'd Love To See You", a celebration and survey of Juxtapoz Magazine during its 30th anniversary.

THE SURREAL SALON SOIREE

On January 25, 2025, BRG will host the annual event that brings together art, music, and tons of costumed creativity for a really special night in Louisiana’s capital area!

This one-of-a-kind night expands the Surreal Salon exhibition to, in essence, include hundreds of works of art by way of the costumes YOU put together to help punctuate this unique exhibition!

In addition to the dozens of works featured in the Surreal Salon exhibition, the big night will include live music, food trucks, and a number of other surprises.

Stay tuned for more details on 2025’s Surreal Salon Soiree coming soon.