Palos Verdes Art Center Showing

Palos Verdes Art Center: “L’aura borealis: 100 Ways to Look at the Muse,” an exploration of what inspires artists to create, is on view through Dec. 30. Hours, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday- Saturday, 1-4 p.m. Sunday; Promenade on the Peninsula, 550 Deep Valley Drive, Suite 261, Rolling Hills Estates (temporary location);, 5504 W. Crestridge Road, Rancho Palos Verdes, 310-541-2479; PV Art Center.

The Palos Verdes Art Center / Beverly G. Alpay Center for Arts Education presents, L €™aura borealis: 100 Ways To Look At The Muse – an exhibition meant to explore deeply what inspires an artist to create. Guest curator Bondo Wyszpolski, inspired by South Bay resident Laura Orr, organized a collection of portraits, paintings, sculpture and a video as a suite of images, each one bearing a cargo of visual poetry.

When a Muse inspires a creative person the result may be a pop song, a sonata or a sonnet. The more ambitious artist may even write a screenplay or a novel. Inspiration is very much at the heart of this show. Together, as one visual chorus, the artwork will contrast, complement and even clash with one another, but ultimately celebrating one special individual. The exhibition will consist of visual, performing and literary artists demonstrating examples of their work that has been Muse inspired. Guest curator Wyszpolski invited over 50 Los Angeles based artists to create portraits of Laura Orr that would enable them to convey through her €“ as a model, a subject €“ their own ideas about who or what it is that inspires them to make art. The body of work combines a degree of sensibility and imagination. A slightly different aspect of Laura emerges with each image €“ every work also brings out something particular and unique in each artist.