Join LAMAG and artist Jemima Wyman on Saturday, July 26 from 12 to 3 p.m. for an all ages, family friendly, collective pattern making activity. Guided by Wyman’s practice that blends together patterns found in the natural world and man-made patterns, she considers the use of patterns with a specific interest in how civilians and activists utilize them to protest with a focus on environmental justice movements. Wyman’s approach of isolating and cataloging individual marks and motifs to later assemble into new, layered compositions informs the structure of the activity.
Inspired by her works in the COLA 2025–Design and Visual Artist Exhibition, this collective art-making activity invites the public to join Wyman to collaborate on marking a large, circular canvas measuring eight feet in diameter. Participants will select one symbol within an array of different patterns provided by the artist and repeat it to form a unique pattern. Through this process, attendees will explore the visual logic of patterns—how they form, overlap, shift, and break. The outcome will be a collaborative, large-scale drawing. All participants are encouraged to share their names to be credited in future presentations of the work.
In addition to this collective art making activity Wyman will give an artist walkthrough of her contributions for the exhibition and practice promptly at 2:30 p.m.
Visual resistance is at the core of Jemima Wyman’s practice. Her work investigates camouflage as a social, formal and political strategy. She works with various mediums (collage, textiles, installation, painting, performance and mixed media) in order to detail the playful subterfuge present in the dynamics of camouflage. Wyman’s recent work explores the theme of visual resistance through pattern and masking, especially when it is used by marginalized groups to gain power (counterpower) in zones of conflict and protest.
