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.