ABOVE: Gordon Lebredt, Dot drawing. Photo credit: Ernest Mayer. (Note: To navigate please click arrows or image.)
02 Dot drawing
c. 1976
template
112.5 x 87.0 cm
Collection of the Canada Council Art Bank, Ottawa
(76/7-0466)
The Dot drawing template was an early attempt by Lebredt to depersonalize the artmaking process and to turn the creative impulse over to a mechanical device. Beginning with Dot drawing, Lebredt sought to remove himself and any signs of personal, authorial creativity from his paintings and drawings.