Ca D’Oro

Gail Watkins is an artist based in Annapolis, Md., and a former painting teacher at St. John’s College. Using comics, photocopy, paint and glue, Watkins creates intricately designed paintings that are subsequently distressed with sandpaper, wire brushes or other approaches.

“In the cycle of history, the new is created from the old,” Watkins has said. “It is the natural process of formation and dissolution that interests me and is evident in my work.”

Numerous small triangles of material rise from the surface of Ca D’Oro, creating a three-dimensional texture that changes the appearance of the painting in shifting daylight.