Katie Pumphrey: From Bay Swim to Swimming Pool and the future of the Inner Harbor
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Katie Pumphrey: From Bay Swim to Swimming Pool and the future of the Inner Harbor
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On this episode we feature Katie Pumphrey, an interdisciplinary artist and ultramarathon open water swimmer living and working in Baltimore.
In June 2024, Katie swam an incredible 24 miles from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge to Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. Her effort was a celebration of a swimmable Inner Harbor, which has been transformed into a safe, recreational resource for the city.
Pulling from her experiences in the water, her paintings, sculptures, and installations use abstraction and imagery to investigate our anxieties and fears, as well as how our imagination sometimes plays tricks on us. Katie explores these tensions through humor, the connectedness between human instincts, and play.
Her latest exhibition, Swimming Pool, which features her signature style, large canvases, and detailed set design, is a full circle moment as she returns back to the Creative Alliance where she was a resident artist from 2011-2014.