The Art Newspaper

On the stand of first-time exhibitor Fringe Gallery, the Seattle-born artist Rebecca Messier is showing gentle geometrical abstractions that belie the modest violence of their making with a needle and thread.

“These are all hand-sewn straight into the paper,” says Allison Cannella, a director at the gallery. “It’s a very meticulous process”. This is Messier’s first time showing outside of Telluride, Colorado, where both she and Fringe are based; her debut nods to Minimalist painting, with a piercing twist.