KATE PROTAGE
SIGHTLINES

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.

Sightlines will be on view online and in the gallery December 5 - 21, 2024. An Opening Reception will be held in the gallery First Thursday, December 5th from 5-8pm. Artist will be in attendance.

Best known for her details of individual shape and expressive brush stroke, Protage’s 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’s newest body of work focuses on specific places; a setting is so lovely that it is a bit surreal.

Of her work, Protage says: “I have a love/hate relationship with the cities in which I’ve 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.”

Kate Protage studied at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco before receiving her MFA in Painting with Academic Distinction from Pratt Institute in 2005. She has been creating and showing her work regularly with nearly sold-out exhibitions since 2001 from Seattle, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Princeton, New York and in between.