Deborah Wage

Oil on 7 × 5 panel

Oil on gallery wrapped canvas

36 x 36

Many years of driving past Wisconsin lakes, catching glimpses of birch trees at the water’s edge stitched together in my minds eyes, now in paint.

Oil 20 × 16

Oil on 14 × 11 panel

Oil and cold wax

7 x 5 on linen panel

Oil on 24 x 24 gallery stretched canvas

Oil on 24 × 24 gallery wrapped canvas

Currently on exhibit and available at the Center for Visual Arts Wausau WI

7 x 5 

Oil

12 x 12 oil

On June 14, 2025, I was putting the last touches on this painting when the news broke that Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark had been murdered in their home in Brooklyn Park. Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette were shot in their home in Champlin and survived.  I didn’t know what to do with that. So I did what I often do, I etched something into the paint….this time it was the coordinates of both homes.   A form of witness. Then I toned them down. Then I put the painting away.

I came across it recently. Remembered that day. And everything that’s happened since.

Minneapolis is forever etched in our hearts and minds.

Oil

5 x 7

Oil on wood

8 x 8”

Oil on 20 x 16 inch stretched canvas

Oil on 20 x 16 inch stretched canvas