King Charl. Oil on canvas. 67 x 54 inches.
August 26 – October 10, 2025
Artist talk and Closing Reception Thursday, October 9, 2025 @ 5:00 pm
The Carlos Gallery in the Visual Art Building at the University of the South is pleased to present Recent Work, an exhibition by artist and educator Daniel Reidy.
Dan Reidy’s Recent Work frames large scale oil paintings, sculptures, video and poetry filled with imagery that references stories that become oddly familiar. Visual references ranging from art history to pop culture comingle with objects and images from Reidy’s personal history. He is interested in overlapping narratives and how collision points between them speak to a shared humanity with fascination. Viewers engaging with the work become intellectual offspring of these collision points, for example, when we talk in movie quotes and make allusions to Greek mythology. Francis Bacon, Han Solo and Blanche Dubois become character in his exhibition where their stories are shared out of context, asking the viewer to discover them anew in relation not only to each other, but to the mediums of traditional painting, sculpture and video.
Daniel Reidy is an artist/educator living and working in Cincinnati, Ohio. Reidy has taught undergraduate and graduate-level Painting, Drawing, and Art History in several institutions including the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Corning Community College, Corning, New York, the University of Alabama Huntsville, and now the Art Academy of Cincinnati. He has presented recent solo and collaborative exhibitions at the Arnot Art Museum in Elmira, New York, The Zeitgeist Gallery in Nashville, Tennessee, Stove Works in Chattanooga, Tennessee, The Waters Gallery, located on the Campus of Elmira College and Flag Studio in Cincinnati, Ohio.
More of Reidy’s work can be viewed online at https://
Carlos Gallery
Visual Art Building
105 Kennerly Rd.
University of the South
|Sewanee, Tennessee
Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday 8 AM – 5 PM
Contact: Jessica Wohl
jewohl@sewanee.edu
