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Published on November 02, 2021

Michael Reddick

Jury Duty, Pencil and colored pencil on Bristol board, 2004

Michael Reddick is presently incarcerated at Connecticut’s Cheshire Correctional Institution and has been working with the Community Partners in Action (CPA) Prison Arts Program for over two decades. Michael Reddick’s drawings are built of layers of pencil, repeatedly drawn and erased, with occasional moments of color in pencil and pastel. Faces, figures, places, and actions are seemingly pulled out of the paper, drifting in and out of focus, dreamlike (or rather, nightmarish), and ethereal. While his subjects most often include the prison, courts, or various dark moments in world history, they seem more to explore darkness itself: the darkness inside the artist, inside his fellow prisoners, inside the prison surrounding him, and inside and surrounding us all.