Into That Good Night, solo exhibition by Vancouver-based Canadian artist Tom Burrows

In his upcoming solo exhibition for Bau-Xi Gallery | Dufferin, Into That Good Night, Vancouver-based artist, Tom Burrows, provides space for meditative encounters and reflection through color, exuding presence, and luminosity. Continuing his The Curve of Time series, the artist reflects on the landscape surrounding his Hornby Island studio. Through an invigorating winter season spent scrounging for firewood and patching leaks, the ever-changing light of the sea, high Southeast prevailing winds and inclement weather are chronicled through Burrows’ sculptural panels.

“December 28th, 2023 — The electricity has just returned after a vicious Christmas day southeaster wreaked havoc on this side of Hornby. A heavy panel of tempered glass that sheltered the entrance to the house was sent cartwheeling thirty feet, shattering on the paving stones by the gate. When we returned by the light of a cell phone from Christmas dinner with friends at a home — luckily, on the island’s northwest shore — we were greeted with what seemed like myriads of diamonds on the path. It’s been reported that the Salish Sea is warming faster than the greater North Pacific.

In 2024, we find ourselves emerging from a pandemic, but now the curve of time and space is compressed. In the ever-tightening vortex of mega-corporate media, we teeter on the lip of recession and fascism flourishes with the proliferation of populist demigods. Hopefully, a voice will transmit a true journal of their family’s voyage; that anyone receives.

‘Do not go gentle into that good night, Rage, rage against the dying of the light.’

I have appropriated Dylan Thomas’s lines, hoping to transfer rage from the death of the self to the demise of a global ecosphere that supports human existence.”

– Tom Burrows