Greensboro, NC.- The Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro is pleased to present “Tom Burckhardt: Falk Visiting artist”. Tom Burkhardt investigates the artistic process, particularly the dilemma of the contemporary painter, in his innovative and humorous works. His exhibition at the Weatherspoon includes Elements of a Painting, a large-scale wall installation that destabilizes the grand tradition of painting through the use of old book pages as a surface. In the work, Burckhardt asks us to “read” and dissect a library of shapes associated with the painted image. Similarly, he uses vintage, clothbound book covers to create a large series of acrylic and colored pencil works (the titles of the works are derived from the titles of the books). Though these works may initially appear as geometric abstractions, Burckhardt’s ambiguous forms and the suggestion of either a horizon line or division between two planes (created by the seam between the two parts of the book cover) beckon towards a narrative interpretation.