Deborah Wage

Oil on 24 x 24 gallery stretched canvas

Oil on 24 × 24 gallery wrapped canvas

Oil

5 x 7

Oil on 6 × 6 inch panel

Oil and cold wax

7 x 5 on linen panel

7 x 5 

Oil

Oil on wood

8 x 8”

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 24 × 24

Oil

On 6 × 6 panel

Oil

10 × 8 panel

Oil on 6 ×6 panel

The sky, like us, often seems to be heightened with awareness. Truth

Oil

6x6 on panel

Interpret the title as you wish.

Oil

6x6 on panel

6 x 6 oil on panel

Oil on 20 x 16 inch stretched canvas

Oil on 20 x 16 inch stretched canvas

Oil on gallery wrapped canvas

36 x 36

Oil and cold wax on 8 x 8 cradled wood panel

Oil and cold wax on 8 x 8 cradled wood panel