Becca Fuhrman
Press Release
(New Orleans, LA) FERRARA SHOWMAN GALLERY is excited to announce the fourth exhibition in its seasonal, online exclusive series. Fast and Loose marks the first gallery solo exhibition of Seattle-based painter Becca Fuhrman. The exhibition features new and recent works by the artist since her first appearance in the 27th Annual NO DEAD ARTISTS International Exhibition of Contemporary Art in 2023. The exhibition will be on view from 1 July through 30 September - online only, with a small selection of works physically installed in the gallery throughout the run of the show.
The artist says of this suite of artworks . . .
Fast & Loose is a sun-drenched fever dream—a vibrant, sweaty escape into the pool party you never knew you needed. In her latest body of work, Becca Fuhrman creates a surreal world where women have seashells for eyes, cowgirls dance under moonlight, getaways are made via alligator, and moments of stillness can only be found beneath a lush poolside canopy.
True to Fuhrman’s distinctive visual language, Fast & Loose explores the charged space between beauty and perversion, play and provocation. The series centers on the unbridled female experience, water, and sexuality; intertwining symbolic motifs with emotionally saturated surroundings. Mixed-media paintings on canvas, wood panel, and sewn banners construct a world teetering precariously on the sinful edge of revelry. Carefully curated color palettes, intricate patterns, and materials like gold leaf and fringe elevate the work’s emotional intensity.
Suspended on ornamental backgrounds or abutting planes of color, bodies in motion, femme figures, and hands getting up to no good, take center stage. Expanding the visual narrative, Fuhrman introduces fluid, woven patterns that create abstract works pulsing with summer heat: the shimmer of pool tiles, sticky asphalt, the cling of wet clothes, and the hypnotic ripple of water.
Fast & Loose invites us to melt into a realm where figures dance, play, and dissolve into the layered strangeness of memory and desire. What begins as summer fling, slowing begins to reveal itself as something more — mischievous, a little unsettling, and undeniably alive.
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Becca Fuhrman (b. 1988, Boise, ID) is an interdisciplinary artist who specializes in multimedia large-scale paintings. Trained in art and architecture, her interests lie in understanding and illustrating personal narratives between people and place. Fuhrman’s work centers around story-telling and folklore, testing the boundaries between memory, myth, and fiction. Exploring what it’s like to be alive - the beauty and the perversion - is central to Fuhrman’s work. Capturing emotional landscapes, often centered around the female experience, water, and sexuality, she seeks to provoke curiosity in viewers. Highly considered colors and patterns are deployed to heighten sentiments, build abstract environments, and create tension. The result is seemingly playful at first glance but often seeded with peculiarity. In the way one recalls a dream, bits and pieces of imagery, color, and pattern, are stitched together to make an other-worldly impression unique unto itself. Fuhrman grew up in the dry foothills of Idaho where her thirst for water grew and where an appreciate for folk art and vintage artifacts took root. Re-purposed materials and found objects are often used as substrates, creating a springboard of inspiration, strengthening a connection to place, and most importantly, minimizing environmental impact. She currently resides in Seattle, Washington, where she works across many mediums including painting, mural installation, illustration, poster art, printmaking, architecture, and textile design.
For more information, press or sales inquiries please contact Gallery Director Matthew Weldon Showman at 504.343.6827 or matthew@ferrarashowman.com. Please join the conversation with FSG on Instagram (@FerraraShowmanGallery) via the hashtags: #BeccaFuhrman #FerraraShowmanGallery, and #ArtsDistrictNewOrleans.