ABOVE: Gordon Lebredt, unfinished canvas for Natural Facts: Red X Yellow X Blue, n.d. (not in exhibition). Photo credit: Ernest Mayer. (Note: To navigate please click arrows or image.)
Among other photorealist painters of the time, such as British artist Malcolm Morley and American painter Chuck Close, Lebredt acknowledges in particular the influence of Canadian painter Jack Chambers and his theory of “perceptual realism.” Chambers' use of the gridded photograph as a source for making paintings is reflected in Source/Source, and it became Lebredt's standard practice to grid the canvas when it came to making paintings such as Epokhé, Title: not specified, and Ripple Rock Blowup.(See Lebredt's unfinished canvas for Natural Facts: Red X Yellow X Blue.)
