TJ Reddy LIST of WORKS: UNC Charlotte CoA+A's PROJECTIVE EYE GALLERY SCENES FOR THE TEACHER 1 Heart of Learning Children and adults are both teachers, learning from one another what is at the heart of being able to flourish within a mutual loving exchange. 2010 $ 1,000 2 The Nature of Study Learning is influenced by the vessel that transports life-giving properties to the body. The vessel also holds the harvest as a feast for future learning. 2010 $ 1,000 3 Pointing the Way If children and adults don't know where they are going, they will end up someplace else. Forthright guidance is ushered, propelled with direction toward specific points of destination. 2010 $ 1,000 BLUES WOMAN SERIES 4 The Rhythm of Inspiration Feminine energy transforms into a heightened state of consciousness. 2015 $ 3,500
5 Blues Woman Blues Blue is a mood, a color of creative resolve and spirituality. Doom reversed becomes mood, an intentional option to resist destruction and devastation. 10 x 13 2014 $ 1,250 6 Bountiful Harvest Blues A seed of consciousness properly planted and tended provides for successful growth. 16 x 20 2010 $ 2,450 BLUES MAN SERIES 7 Blues Man Blues Blue is a mood, a color of creative resolve and spirituality. Doom reversed becomes mood, an intentional option to resist destruction and devastation. 2014 $ 1000 SOLD 8 A Blues Man's Sojourn Creativity of sound, color, breath, and spirit allows one to overcome devastation on life's journey. 31 x 48 2007 $ 9,000 PSYCHOLOGICAL CASTRATION SERIES 9 Life is Shortnin' Emphasis on the brevity of devalued lives as a doctor knowingly injects a human specimen with a non-medicinal substance. 2009 $ 3,500 10 Battle Scars Scores of sores compartmentalized, each one barely alive, hospitalized, waiting to die, carrying the corpses of those who were butchered. 2010 $ 3,500
11 Just Ice Justice viewed as as a cold, calculated activity that results in the castration of the mind. 2009 $ 3,500 12 Next in Line The inhumane system of burial plots/dumping grounds for the test cases with selected body parts removed. 2000 $ 3,500 13 Tug of War The tension between the superficially humane and internally inhumane nature of all those who allowed Black men to be "bricked in" and entrapped by devious racist ploys. 2009 $ 3,500 14 Lip Service: The Hoarders The inhumane androgynous character restricts the bloodied specimen from any movement or escape and consumes his brains. 10 x 29 2007 $ 3,500 15 Lip Service While wearing the tie of upstanding society, the androgynous inhumane character castrates the human specimen tied to his neck. 10 x 29 2007 $ 3,500
POETRAITS 16 Poetrait for Noni Tribute to a spiritually endowed, creative, memorable woman - a daughter, sister, lover, wife, and mother - whose life was ended by domestic violence. 32 x 60 2009 Not for sale 17 Poetrait of a Family Family is the root source for creating and sustaining human and environmental life. 24 x 36 1994 Not for sale 18 Handplay Children in touch with creative play enrich the family and the world. 2000 Not for sale HAVOC IN HAITI SERIES 19 Cataclysm Unexpected, unanticipated, sudden upsurging, earthshattering unprecedented upheaval. 11 x 14 2010 $ 1,250 20 Life Rewoven Surviving strands of life become a tapestry, a comforter, a blanket for redeeming shelter. 11 x 14 2010 $ 1,250 21 Regrowth Aftermath Haitians grow their lives again despite natural resources having been depleted by political intrigue, economic struggle, and a catastrophic earthquake. 11 x 14 2011 $ 1,250
22 Scattered The aftermath of devastation, deluge of death, remnants of bodies strewn, displaced, misplaced. Promises broken, support erased, strands disintegrating. 10 x 13 2011 $ 1,250 KING WARRIOR MAGICIAN LOVER ARCHETYPES OF THE MALE IMAGE. 23 King Crowned with the leaves of many attendants in a variety of transitioning scenes moving from the figurative to the flora and fauna, all becoming a panorama of reflective and inclusive embodiment. 3' x 8' 2001 $ 25,000 24 Warrior Vulnerable to becoming poisoned with seething masculinity which brings in the extremes, one of the protector and the other - the despot, a tyrant, antagonistic and aggressive, a victim of pychological castration, psychotic, neurotic, deadly. 3' x 8' 2001 $ 25,000
25 Magician The Magician is portrayed as a musician, like a Magi, a kind of alchemist who acknowledges and celebrates, and is largely supported with a creative feminine periphery birthing rhythm. To an extent, a "good" man: selfrespecting, gracious and compassionate. 3' x 8' 2001 $ 25,000 26 Lover The male archetype of the sensual, a libido shaped with the purpose of pleasure and progeny, embraced with fruitful and fetal prospects for human survival. 3' x 8' 2001 $ 25,000 SAVANNAH SCENES From the figurative and 27 Ventures View Too abstractions to the extended scope of the 15 x 19 scape encompassing nature's views for a change of mind and time, reflecting on 28 Ventures/View scenes beyond the 15 x 19 human realm. 2011 $ 1,250 2011 $ 1,250 29 Scene for the Maroon On the island, the "maroons" escaped from bondage, and sought the sanctity of freedom in marshes, swamps, hidden enclaves, and ritual meeting grounds. 12 x 20 2011 $ 1,000
NATURE OF NURTURE SERIES 30 Preacher Teacher * The biblical stories of struggle, survival, and redemption told to help learners/congregants to structure knowledge through call, response, and recall. 36 x 48 2012 $ 12,000 31 Scene for Sunya The heartfelt rhythm of a drummer, movement of a dancer, and touch of a healer restores us to nature's balance. 17 x 23 2014 $ 2,600 32 Harvest Of Youth* Youthful learning is dependent upon childhood memories of being cared for with compassion and being nurtured toward social responsibility as elders. 16 x 22 2013 $ 2,400 33 Girl Child and Guardian Angel Female children are endowed with the procreative power to offer the channel of conduit for birthing and then to provide angelic protection to their own and other children. 16 x 36 2005 $ 5,000 34 Growing with Children Children teach us to understand time beyond the rational and deceptive frames of adult references to growing up. 24 x 40 1994 Not for sale
35 Sustenance Women are the center of life, tending, cultivating, harvesting, and storing what is needed for sustained survival of the community. 48 x 96 2015 $ 25,000 * Scenes for the Teacher Series LIMITED EDITION PRINTS Blues Man The heart of the blues is in the inspired color of mood freely interpreted as rhythm and movement. Limited Edition Print 1998 $ 100 Drawing from Nature Nature is embued with influential lessons that encourage and sustain references to comprehensive meaning and understanding. Limited Edition Print 1998 $ 100 Scene for the Teacher Instruction for living with love and compassion is given scope and dimension for learning the relevance of humanity. Limited Edition Print 1998 $ 100 Sister Greeting Sister Sister love is uplifted by a shared familial connection to each other with unique significance as women, mothers, daughters, sisters. Limited Edition Print 1998 $ 100