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new, recent, and important works by a cross-section of the gallery programme"First Saturdays" Opening Receptions - 1 August 5-9 PM - White Linen Night + 5 September 5-8 PM
July 15 – September 5, 2026
Pull Quote
By creating work rich in symbolism and ripe with intentional ambiguity, my intent is to leave room for self reflection. My hope is that onlookers find bits of themselves laced throughout my pieces, simultaneously lulled in by a sense of nostalgia and jolted awake through twists of modernity.
Biography
B E C C A F U H R M A N
b.1988 - Boise, Idaho ::: lives & works - Seattle, Washington
@fuhrmz
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.
Artist Statement
My work aims to express the small moments that make up a life; quilting memories together one by one. As a painter trained in architecture, I am known for large-scale, vibrant works that demonstrate my sustained interest in space, materiality, and emotion. When I was little, I remember my grandparents had wallpaper that didn’t repeat but wrapped the entire dining room with unique imagery, telling a story across every wall - a visual narrative, a form of folklore. The totality of imagery mesmerized me then and continues to preoccupy my imagination now. Similarly, my paintings are rooted in place, oversized, explore sequence, and are embedded with symbolism.
Exploring what it’s like to be alive - the beauty and the chaos - is central to my work. Through my practice, I examine gender roles, the domestic, and middle-class associations. I use found items as substrates and blue-collar materials from hardware stores, such as drop cloths and house paint. I rework these commonplace items with a sewing machine, paint, gold leaf, and embroidery, bringing new meaning to the mundane. Depicting emotional landscapes, often centered on feminism, water, and sexuality, I seek to provoke curiosity and connection in viewers. Highly considered colors and patterns are deployed to heighten sentiment, build worlds, and create tension. The result is seemingly playful at first glance but often laced with peculiarity.
In addition to telling a story with color and imagery, I accentuate the materiality of my substrates as another layer of narrative complexity. I think of painting as sculpture, carving away parts of the empty substrate with paint, while leaving little elements of the original surface untouched. Whether working on wood panel, drop cloth, or canvas, I am continually compelled to reveal bits of the original substrate beneath. The result blurs the edges between foreground and background, new and old. Little clues of the past are left behind for viewers to discover, strengthening the sentiment of the piece. For instance, In or Out demonstrates this notion by revealing the wood grain of the panel beneath, blurring the line between foreground and background, and playing up the theme of exposure in the nude figure. In the way one recalls a dream, bits and pieces of materiality, imagery, color, and pattern are stitched together to make an other-worldly impression unique unto itself.
Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
2013 BA Architectural Studies, University Of Washington, Seattle, WA
Dean’s List , Departmental Honors
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2023 No Dead Artists Juried Exhibition, New Orleans, LA
2023 Forest For The Trees Group Seattle Art Fair Exhibition, Seattle, WA
2023 Looking Forward, XO Group Exhibition, Seattle, WA
2022 Keep it Moving, XO Group Exhibition, Seattle, WA
2022 Summer’s Over, By and By Group Exhibition, Seattle, WA
2021 SPF, Series 001, Seattle, WA
2021 Lean with it, Mural at Salon Moony, Seattle, WA
2018 Mama Tried, Artist for Progress Group Exhibition, Seattle, WA
2018 Arctic, For the Love of Plants, Group Exhibition, Seattle, WA
RESIDENCIES
2022 Aquarium Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2022 Pocoapoco, Oaxaca, MX
AWARDS
2013 Rolland Simpson Endowed Scholarship for Architecture Award Seattle, WA
