JAMA has recently had the privilege of supporting several exciting exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), continuing our long-standing partnership with the museum. Our role is to provide subtle yet essential engineering solutions that help complex installations come to life safely and efficiently.
One standout project was the Damascus Room, a recreation of an Ottoman-era chamber from Syria that involved the display of historic wooden panel walls. To support these fragile elements, we engineered a custom, self-standing aluminum truss armature designed to preserve and present the panels.
For the Mind, Mythos, Muse exhibition, featured the fashion designs of Alexander McQueen. We helped bring the vision to life by designing freestanding, cantilevered metal-stud columns imitating the forms of Ancient Greek temples.
We also played a key role in Ed Ruscha’s Chocolate Room, where we engineered new partition walls mounted with hundreds of sheets of paper screen-printed with chocolate paste.
We’re proud to have contributed to these recent LACMA exhibitions and look forward to more ahead, including the upcoming Grounded exhibit.