(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.

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.