PUMP 2017 was an event highlighting culture and creativity.
October 7-21, 2017, Long Beach, CA.
Congratulations and thank you, to all participants and visitors, for a successful and well-attended inaugural PUMP.
Artists
Alexander Elliott Miller
 TO….OBLIVION: Historic Landmarks Around Los Angeles Alexander Elliott Miller is a composer and guitarist on the... |
Alexander Onley
 The large-scale oil on canvas paintings by Alexander Onley are born... |
Andre Woodward
 Andre Woodward is a Southern California artist whose work examines the very... |
Andy Fedak
 Andy Fedak was born in 1978 and lives and works in Los Angeles. He received his BFA from New York University and his MFA from the... |
Angelica Sotiriou
 Angelica Sotiriou holds a Masters of Arts degree and a Masters of Fine Arts degree graduating Cum Laude from the University of... |
Annette Heully
 Annette Heully, a nationally exhibited artist, earned her MFA from California State University Long Beach with an emphasis in Fiber... |
Beck and Col Stafford
 Los Angeles-based artists Beck and Col Stafford use humor and chaos to examine the crisis of human exceptionalism. Through costume-... |
Bessie Kunath
 Bessie Kunath received her MFA from UC Santa Barbara in 2012.... |
Big Epoch
 Big Epoch uses a blend of bent gear and hardware to craft his beat-centric tones. An experienced warrior of the LA noise scene you... |
Brittany Mojo
 Brittany Mojo was born and raised in New Jersey. She received her BFA in Ceramics from California State University, Long Beach and... |
Cannibalistic Caterpillar
 Cannibalistic Caterpillar is a sound and vision project by Justin Scheid and Brian Akenoh. The group utilizes live projections,... |
Cathy Hsiao
 Cathy Hsiao came from a background in craft, specifically weaving animal fibers dyed with plants, raised by a devout Buddhist mom. “... |
Chris Miller
 Chris Miller was born in Hilo, Hawaii in 1977. He received his BFA from The Pennsylvania State University and his MFA from The... |
Christine Hudson
 Christine Hudson covers an area of the floor with over one hundred thousand handmade porcelain teeth, intended to be traversed by... |
Christine Nguyen
 Christine Nguyen currently resides in Long Beach, California. She received her... |
Common Sense
 "Common Senses", an original aural and visual concept by Martin Espino, explores the 5 Senses by performing ambient and groove... |
Conchi Sanford
 Daughter of an immigrant mother, Conchi Sanford’s work reflects her own cultural diversity and calls into question social constructs... |
David Kelley
 David Kelley is an interdisciplinary artist who works at the intersection of the body and landscape. His experimental documentary... |
Debbie Carlson
 Debbie Carlson is a mixed media installation artist, who lives and works in Orange County. She is a first-generation Taiwanese... |
Deborah Aschheim
 Deborah Aschheim makes installations, sculptures and drawings about memory and place. She has mapped networks of video and light... |
DREAM WALKER
 DREAM WALKER is an interdisciplinary creative artist group that creates new artistic experiences by bringing together emerging... |
Faraday Cage
 Matt Pogue has been wrangling electricity with his guitar for three decades. Now he does it with other machines as well. ... |
Gretchen Potts
 Gretchen Potts is a Los Angeles based multi-media artist focusing on interactive installations and performance art. Her work... |
Hunter Janos & Narae Kim
 The Fog Knows is an immersive and physically interactive light projection installation made by projecting animation through... |
Ihab Ali
 Ihab Ali's PUMP performance involves walling off a section of the Icehouse basement using bricks. Visitors will be unable to access... |
Institute 4 Labor Generosity Workers & Uniforms
 Carole France Lung artist / administrator On Nov. 9, 2016 Frau Fiber made the following pledge: |
Jacki Morie
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Jesse Nason
 Jesse Nason is a California native that has been playing keyboards and drums in various bands in the OC/LA area, including Deccatree... |
John Hillis Sanders
 From the concept to the finished work, John Hillis Sanders finds the... |
Johnny Shield
 Johnny Shield's grandfather made an adventure across the Atlantic Ocean to the United States during World War II, his mother went on... |
Karen Holden
 Karen Holden is a poet, artist and educator. For PUMP, Holden presents under the hashtag #PUMPpoetry online on... |
Karena Massengill
 Karena Massengill is an artist working with steel in innovative and unique ways creating personal statements while addressing... |
Katie Stubblefield, Jennifer Gunlock & Hilary Norcliffe
 Timber/Timbre is the collaborative effort between Long Beach resident artists Katie Stubblefield, Jennifer Gunlock and... |
Kiyomi Fukui
 Kiyomi Fukui is a Japanese-American artist who lives and works in Long Beach, CA. Recent exhibitions include Poetics of Relation,... |
Lauren Ruth
 Lauren Ruth is a multidisciplinary artist whose sculpture and performance works engage issues social ritual, participation, and the... |
Made of Hagop
 Made of Hagop is a self-taught mixed media collage artist living in Venice Beach. His work is an exploration in the concept of... |
Margaret Noble
 Margaret Noble’s experimental artworks have been exhibited nationally and internationally. Her interdisciplinary work resides at the... |
Matt Roberts - Humans of Long Beach
 Matt Roberts is an Englishman who packed his bags to start a new life in the United States in 2008. Settling in Long Beach the first... |
Matthew Dumpit
 Matthew Dumpit graduated from California State University Long Beach in 2015 with a BFA in Metals and Jewelry. Matthew is well... |
Michael Nannery
 Michael Nannery received his BFA in Printmaking in 2011 from Herron School of Art & Design in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he... |
Mimi Haddon
 Mimi Haddon uses fiber sculpture as a tool to express the theme of invasion. She prefers to show her work outside of the gallery... |
Narsiso Martinez
 Narsiso Martinez needed a job so he went back to what he knew – picking fruit and vegetables in agricultural fields. He had worked... |
Neil Mathis
 Neil Mathis was raised in the Bay Area before relocating to Southern California. He received a BA in Political Science in 2008, and... |
NewTown Arts
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Olga Lah
 Olga Lah is a site-specific installation artist based in Long Beach. She constructs monumental works using the accumulation and... |
Pablo Bert
 Pablo Bert is an electronic musician and mathematician from Long Beach. Pablo got his start as a chiptune/IDM DJ in 2003. Now he... |
Patrick Faulk
 Earning his BA from San Diego State University in 2006, Faulk entered the commercial arts, working with Sorrento Valley based firm,... |
phog masheeen
 Phog masheeen is a collective from Costa Mesa that perform and produce events. For the last four years The Wonder Valley... |
Potar
 Potar is a local wonder of Circuit Bending. For those unfamiliar with bent circuits, circuit bending is the artful rewiring of... |
Qrux
 Qrux, Aka Andrew Reitsma, is an artist who blends music and photography to synthesize life around him. His compositions are both... |
Radio Machine Magazine
 Radio Machine Magazine is an experimental group that explores different combinations of sounds and textures from a design... |
Rob Brown
 Rob Brown is a visual and sound artist who lives in Santa Ana, California. He was born in 1981 in Joplin, Missouri and grew up in... |
Rob Brown and Davy Sumner
 Rob Brown and Davy Sumner, both artists and sound engineers, will create a soundtrack for the basement of the Icehouse expanding... |
Rosalie M. López
 Rosalie M. López is an LA based artist whose artwork involves reforming cultural iconography using photographs gathered from her... |
Rychard Cooper
 Rychard Cooper is a composer, synthesist & sound designer and teaches classes in electronic music & digital media at CSULB... |
Sam Medeiros
 In a designated space, Sam Medeiros will take on challengers with a handmade wooden chess board requiring participants to drive the... |
Sasha de Koninck
 Sasha de Koninck is an artist and researcher from Santa Monica, CA. She decided to leave the west coast and all of its wonderful... |
Skunk Puppet
 Skunk Puppet rides the sonic waves of the laptop variety. Using a carefully chosen batch of apps Skunk Puppet creates an angry zoo... |
Som Shankar
 “Som's music defines the intersection of classical, timeless forms and modern electronic sound technology.” |
SynthLab
 SynthLab was founded in 2015 and is directed by Rychard Cooper and Matt Pogue. |
Takeshi Kanemura
 Southern California-based artist Takeshi Kanemura was born in Okinawa, Japan, and lives and works in Los Angeles. He received a BA... |
Terry Braunstein
 Terry Braunstein’s work takes the form of photography, artist-made books, installation, video, sculpture and public art. A survey of... |
The Dirty Chaps
 The Dirty Chaps are comprised of 2 musicians, one performing on keyboard-based synths, the other with a guitar-based synth, various... |
Ting Zhang & Sahy Uhns
 Ting Zhang is originally from Beijing, China, now living in Los Angeles. She is a video designer graduated from CalArts School of... |
Tom Peters
 Composer and Grammy nominated performer Tom Peters creates new music for silent movies, connecting well-known masterpieces and... |
Toy Piano Cats with Steven Speciale
 Steven Speciale is a pianist, composer, and conductor. He teaches music at Loyola High School of Los Angeles where he is also the... |
univac
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wikiGong
 wikiGong.com is an artists' collective dedicated to cataloging the sounds of... |
Yoon Chung Han
 Yoon Chung Han participates in PUMP 2017 as both an artist-in-residence and exhibiting artist. She is a media/sound artist,... |
