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Light shows give Seattle a glow-up this winter

By Brangien Davis/ December 8, 2022

”..Tis the season of long, dark nights. I recently learned that while our shortest day is the solstice (Dec. 21), the slightly squished and slanted nature of our planet means our earliest sunsets are actually happening right now, at the devil’s hour of 4:17 p.m. Sundown will start arriving ever-later beginning on Dec. 15, so until then we have to hold tight and look for the lights.

That’s what Seattle artist Kate Protage does in her dark and deeply atmospheric paintings, now on view at Pioneer Square’s
J. Rinehart Gallery in Home and Away (through Dec. 23; artist meet-and-greet Dec. 10, 1-4 p.m.). This new body of oil paintings shows off Protage’s signature style: city scenes somewhere between abstract and representative, as if seen through a rain-spattered windshield at dusk…”

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