Becca Fuhrman - Tan Lines

(New Orleans, Louisiana) FERRARA SHOWMAN GALLERY is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of Seattle-based painter Becca Fuhrman entitled Tan Lines. On the heels of two previous, successful collaborations - an online exclusive in Summer 2025 and presentation at San Francisco Art Fair in April 2026 - this exhibition surveys ten new and recent works capturing the artist’s diversity of medium, subject matter, and motif.

True to Fuhrman’s distinctive visual language, Tan Lines explores the charged space between beauty and chaos, play, and provocation. Mixed-media paintings on canvas, wood panel, and sewn banners construct a world precariously teetering on the edge of revelry. Is the figure flailing or dancing? Are these hands moving to touch or pulling away? Playful upon first viewing, this body of work is seeded with peculiarity - upon further inspection, pushing and pulling perception and leaving fate to be determined only by the viewer. 

The exhibition will be on view 27 May through 11 July 2026 with an opening reception on 6 June from 5-8 PM as part of the Arts District New Orleans’ First Saturday Gallery Openings.

Fuhrman expounds on this suite of paintings . . . 

“Tan Lines” is s a sun-drenched fever dream—a vibrant, sweaty escape into a manic poolside summer’s day. In my latest body of work, I’ve created a surreal world grounded in concepts of freedom and earthly pleasures. Exploring moments that make us feel alive, I invite the viewer to lose themselves amongst colors that pulse, patterns that vibrate, and figures that wiggle, swim, and dream. 

Fields of color, nuanced patterns, and materials like gold leaf and fringe elevate the work’s emotional intensity. Using a method called “cut-outs,” I blur the edges of foreground and background by revealing portions of the substrate beneath. Swirls of wood grain abut planes of striking color, blurring the edges between foreground and background. In the way one recalls a dream, bits and pieces of imagery, materiality, pattern, and color are stitched together to create an otherworldly impression unique unto itself.

This exhibition pulses with sticky summer heat. In a world where freedom and connection feel fleeting, this exhibition celebrates the small moments that make us feel alive - the good, the bad, and the strange.

Becca Fuhrman is an interdisciplinary artist known for her vibrant large-scale paintings that showcase her sustained interest in materiality and emotion.

Born in Boise, Idaho, Fuhrman moved to Seattle in 2009, where she studied at the University of Washington, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture in 2015. Trained in art and architecture, Fuhrman’s interests lie in understanding and illustrating the personal narratives that exist between people and their environment, blurring the lines between inner and outer worlds. Exploring what it’s like to be alive - the beauty and the chaos - is central to her work. Capturing emotional landscapes, often centered on feminism, water, and place, she seeks to provoke curiosity and connection in viewers. Highly considered colors and patterns are deployed to heighten sentiment, build worlds, and create tension.

Since graduating, she has worked across a variety of disciplines connecting art and architecture including: working as Head of Visual Creative for The Mighty Union, a boutique hospitality group; contributing to the Starbucks Art Program; creating public mural installations for community arts organizations such as Forest For the Trees; working with national galleries such as Hashimoto in Los Angeles and Ferrara Showman in New Orleans; and most recently, installing a multimedia mural at Cannonball, a contemporary arts center in downtown Seattle. Additionally, she has partnered with notable collaborators, including Fernet Branca, Bumbershoot, The Fillmore, Elysian, and Starbucks. Since 2009, Fuhrman has lived and worked in Seattle. 

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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 social media:  @FerraraShowmanGallery + @FUHRMZ + @ArtsDistrictNewOrleans.