ABOVE: Gordon Lebredt, Tracks (Defacements). Photo credit: Ernest Mayer. (Note: To navigate please click arrows or image.)
06 Tracks (Defacements)
c. 1976-1978
serigraph
39.8 x 59.0 cm
Collection of Gallery One One One
School of Art, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg;
Gift of Bill Lobchuk
Lebredt: “Printed shortly after the completion of Ripple Rock Blowup, Tracks can be considered a schema for a planned defacement of the larger work. The plan was to have a horizontal strip of pigment-as indicated in the print-removed from the surface of Ripple Rock Blowup using a commercially available paint remover. This defacement was never executed; however, the painting was shortly thereafter 'cancelled' with the application of a diagonal strikethrough (see entry above: Ripple Rock Blowup). Tracks in its turn was defaced by a strikethrough that mimicked a printmaking convention whereby the rejects of a newly struck or pulled edition are crossed-out thus rendering them unfit for anything other than perhaps serving as test sheets for some future effort or enterprise.”
