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J. Rinehart Gallery is delighted to announce Sightlines, an exhibition of new paintings from long-time Seattle artist, Kate Protage. Sightlines reflects on important moments and facets of life. The reminder of loss, your favorite view, nostalgia; the feelings may pass but the memory remains.

Best known for her details of individual shape and expressive brush stroke, Protage鈥檚 work is meant to exist in the grey area between representation and abstraction, where light and solid forms are given equal consideration and are almost interchangeable. Kate Protage鈥檚 newest body of work focuses on specific places; a setting is so lovely that it is a bit surreal.

Of her work, Protage says: 鈥淚 have a love/hate relationship with the cities in which I鈥檝e lived. Depending on the time of day, there are two worlds that exist in the same physical space: streets that appear gritty, dirty, and depressing by day turn into an environment infused with a strange kind of lush, dark beauty and romance at night. These are the moments that remind me to take a breath, look closer, and recognize that there is still beauty in the world despite all the chaos that surrounds us. Painting these moments is, in a strange way, my minor act of rebellion.鈥�