Margaret Evangeline Sabachthani Author:Dominique Nahas, Julie Fontenot Landry, Jonathan Goodman, Margaret Evangeline American painter Margaret Evangeline (born 1943) is best known for her steel paintings, which she marks by shooting them with guns. The series depicted in her latest monograph Sabachthani were created in collaboration with American troops stationed in Iraq in 2011. Evangeline sent white metal bars to the soldiers, who shot and then returned them.