A new UF exhibit is showing students failure is necessary.
“Necessary Failures,” an exhibit at the College of the Arts’ Gary R. Libby Gallery, opened Friday. It will be on display until Thursday, said Laura Denzer, a UF painting and drawing graduate student who helped organize the exhibition.
As part of the exhibit, a pile of stenciling tape, which is used to outline work in paintings, is on display.
Lisa Iglesias, an assistant professor at UF’s School of Art + Art History, and Almaz Wilson, a UF master’s of fine arts student, also helped organize it.
Iglesias said the idea for the show came from a seminar in which she teaches artists failure is necessary in finding success.
“What is most important to me, in regards to the seminar and exhibition, is the spirit of taking risks and experimentation,” she said.
Denzer said initially students were hesitant to display their art under the title “Necessary Failures.”
“But they aren’t failures by accident,” she said. “It’s all about thinking conceptually.”
Iglesias said visitors have liked the work.
“There’s so much that’s available for the viewer to jump into,” she said.
On Friday, two other exhibits opened at the college. Seven master’s students presented their artwork at the University Gallery for the exhibit “Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition II.”
Brightly colored canvases were scattered on a wall in the gallery. Twenty-eight canvases, painted with patterns, shapes and an array of colors, filled another wall. The exhibit is on display until April 16.
The third exhibit is located in the Grinter Gallery and is comprised of ceramics created by UF professor emeritus Ira Winarsky. This exhibit will be on display until Aug. 31.
“The works in this room depend on each other to create meaning,” Denzer said.
