We hold art on display to high standards — we’ve made the trek to see it, it’s taking up valuable space in a museum or gallery or public space, so it better be good, right? Core Contemporary’s second edition of its OOPS! exhibit explores the imperfect. What if an artist’s work didn’t go as planned?

Emerging artists get to show when and how it went awry, and maybe when their artistic practice became transitional. As co-curator and artist Bailey Anderson puts it, “Without technical failures, conceptual risks, failed relationships, or professional setbacks, there would be no point at all.”