Exhibit: Kissed By A Muse
On View: June 4 - July 24, 2022, McGuire Woods Gallery, W-16, Closing reception Saturday, July 16, 2022 4pm - 6pm
The Workhouse Arts Center is proud to present the Kissed by a Muse exhibit, featuring Virginia-based artists John Hartt and Cheryl Neway. The exhibition features artwork that celebrates the main themes and draws inspiration from Xanadu (the Workhouse Performing Arts production based on the Universal film featuring music and lyrics by Jeff Lynne and John Farrar), including contemporary costuming, fanciful paintings of enigmatic characters, and bright discothèque colors.
For more information about exhibits at the Workhouse Arts Center, contact Audrey Miller audreymiller@workhousearts.org
“The themes of Xanadu are simple and universal: Love, Creativity, and most importantly, ROLLER DISCO! Neway and Hartt are celebrating these themes in their exhibition Kissed by a Muse. As an arts center, it’s important that we are collaborating between art forms. The performing arts department is incredibly pleased to be the inspiration for a visual art exhibition!”
-Liz Colandene, Performing Arts Coordinator at Workhouse Arts Center
Kissed By A Muse
Cheryl VanderMolen Neway
Cheryl VanderMolen Neway, owner of Perfect Mistakes, is a batik artist, designer, seamstress and mixed media artist. She experiments with different techniques in natural to commercial grade dyeing. She up-cycles used clothes, transforming them into something new. Cheryl also works with new fabric as a blank canvas and transforms it through her different resist methods and dyeing processes. From native and natural to imported and manmade, worlds collide as she explores and fuses fabric and techniques from around the world.
Gardenscape
Cheryl VanderMolen Neway
2022, Batik on cotton, 24 in x 24 in, $240
Boho Summer Vibes Skirt
Cheryl VanderMolen Neway
2022, Batik on rayon, Size M, $180
Sunset Tunic Top
Cheryl VanderMolen Neway
2022, Batik on rayon, One size fits most, $120
Surfing the Cosmos
Cheryl VanderMolen Neway
2022, Batik on cotton, 24in x 24in, $380
A Walk to Occoquan
Cheryl VanderMolen Neway
2020, Mixed Media, 58 in x 80 in, $29,500
As She Sang Cloak
Cheryl VanderMolen Neway & Martin Cervantez, 2017, Canvas, fiber, mixed media, 72 in x 48 in, $1,200
Belle of the Ball
Cheryl VanderMolen Neway, 2019, Canvas, mixed media, spray paint, Women's size 10, $1,200
Blazing Bubblegum Disco Dreams
Cheryl VanderMolen Neway
2022, Dye on Canvas, 30 in x 30 in, $520
Early Morning Dew
Cheryl VanderMolen Neway
2022, Dye on canvas, 20 in x 20 in, $180
Moonlit
Cheryl VanderMolen Neway
2022, Batik on cotton, 24 in x 24 in, $280
Freedom om Emotion Diptych
Cheryl VanderMolen Neway
2022, Dye on canvas, 36 in x 24 in, $1,200
Sunglow
Cheryl VanderMolen Neway
2017, Batik on cotton, 81 in x 21 in, $1,800
Gardenscape
Cheryl VanderMolen Neway
2022, Batik on cotton, 24 in x 24 in, $240
Life
Cheryl VanderMolen Neway
2022, Batik on cotton, 24 in x 24 in, $380
Sunfireflower
Cheryl VanderMolen Neway
2022, Batik on cotton, 36 in x 36 in, $520
The Earth Raining Down On Us
Cheryl VanderMolen Neway
2017, Mixed media, 58 in x 80 in, NFS - Suggested retail $21,500
Kissed By A Muse - John Hartt
John Hartt is a painter with a simple goal: he wants his art to make people smile. His oddball style can be described as a mix of lowbrow art, pop surrealism and cartoonism painted with hyper-intense colors and humorous undertones. He can be found painting at his studio at Creative Brush in Manassas and around the DMV area painting murals.
Sunny by John Hartt, 2021, Oil on canvas, 10 in x 10 in, $350
A Gathering of Balloons
John Hartt, 2019, Oil on canvas, 80 in x 36 in, $10,800
Adoration of the Virgin
John Hartt, 2022, Oil on canvas, 16 in x 20 in, $750
Queen of Bees
John Hartt, 2022, Oil on canvas, 36 in x 12 in, $2,200
Eastbound
John Hartt, 2017, Oil on canvas, 36 in x 19 in in red floater frame, $1,900
How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
John Hartt, 2022, Oil on canvas, 12 in x 12 in, $450
The Hook
John Hartt, 2021, Oil on canvas, 16 in x 20 in, $650
Moony
John Hartt, 2021, Oil on canvas, 10 in x 10 in, $350
Schoolboy
John Hartt, 2022, Oil on canvas, 36 in x 12 in, $2,500
Love
John Hartt, 2021, Oil on canvas, 36 in x 36 in, $3,110
Urania
John Hartt, 2022, Oil on canvas, 40 in x 16 in, $2,200
Smiling Eyes
John Hartt, 2019, Oil on canvas, 20 in x 20 in, $1,800
Sunny
John Hartt, 2021, Oil on canvas, 10 in x 10 in, $350
Terpsichore
John Hartt, 2022, Oil on canvas, 20 in x 20 in, $1,200
Erato
John Hartt, 2022, Oil on canvas, 30 in x 30 in, $2,400