Becca Fuhrman
Fast and LooseOnline Exclusive Exhibition Series - Summer 2025
July 1 – September 30, 2025
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 | | | @fuhrmz
[lives & works – Seattle, WA ::: b.1988, Boise, ID]
BECCA FUHRMAN 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 places. Fuhrman’s work is often autobiographical, depicting a memory or experience through symbolic imagery, creating her own personal mythology, and encouraging onlookers to explore their own. Fuhrman grew up in the dry foothills of Idaho where she gained an appreciation for desolate landscapes, dry roads, and all things that have a patina. She currently resides in Seattle, Washington where she works across many mediums including murals, painting, printmaking, graphic design, architecture, branding, and textile design. Exploration and education are critical to her practice. In support of furthering her art education, she completed two artist residency programs in 2022 as a resident artist at Pocoapoco in Oaxaca, Mexico, and at The Aquarium Gallery in New Orleans. Through travel and introspection, Fuhrman enjoys forming unexpected connections through a myriad of creative disciplines. Recurring themes explored within her work are feminism, memory, gender identity + representation, color + pattern play, and movement. In the next chapter of her work, she focuses on unearthing what it means to be a creator in the age of climate change.
Artist Statement
My work aims to express the small moments that make up a life; quilting memories together one by one. When I was little, I remember my grandparents’ had wallpaper that didn’t repeat, but wrapped the entire dining room, floor to ceiling, covering every surface. Visual story-telling, folklore. The totality of imagery mesmerized me back then and continues to preoccupy my imagination now. Similarly, my work is often oversized, sequential, and imbued with the occult. Largely autobiographical, my pieces visualize bits of time; depicting days gone by, fleeting encounters from the present, and notions of the future.
Exploring what it’s like to be alive - the beauty and the perversion - is the heartbeat of my work. Capturing emotional landscapes, often centered around the female experience, water, and sexuality, I seek to provoke curiosity in viewers. Unexpected color palettes, patterned elements, and mixed-media components, like gold leaf and sewn fringe, are used to heighten sentiments and construct abstract environments. Bodies in motion, elongated femme figures, and human hands often take center stage, suspended on ornamental backgrounds or abutting planes of color. Era bending, the subjects could exist just as easily on a Greek motif or 60’s album art. The result is seemingly playful at first glance but often seeded with strangeness and complexity upon further inspection. Like a recalling a reoccurring dream, bits of color, pattern, and imagery are stitched together to form a new and yet familiar impression that you just can’t shake.
The quilts I saw my mother make as a child, the pulsating psychedelic poster art of the ’60s, and the ingenuity of folk art infiltrate my thinking. This interweaving of traditions allows my work to be ripe with contradiction, feeling simultaneously contemporary yet nostalgic, rich in symbolism but ripe with abstraction — holding many opposing truths at once, in a comforting way, so do many, much like we all do.
CV
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
