Rebecca Koury Original "Illuminated Ellipse" Ivory Gold Ellipse Contemporary Abstract Painting, Acrylic on Canvas, Carmel California Art, 2026

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A single ellipse dominates this canvas, its surface worked in shifting passages of ivory, bone, and pale champagne that seem … Read more A single ellipse dominates this canvas, its surface worked in shifting passages of ivory, bone, and pale champagne that seem to pulse faintly, like something lit from behind rather than painted from the front. Koury builds the form in thin, overlapping veils rather than flat color, so cracks of warmer gold show through in places, catching light differently depending on where you stand. Up close the restraint is deceptive; the surface is dense with small shifts in tone that reward slow looking.

Illuminated Ellipse is quiet enough to live behind a bed or reading chair without ever going flat or boring, and warm enough to anchor a room built around neutrals, cream, and natural wood. For a collector drawn to Koury's Future Forward series, this is its most stripped-down, meditative entry.

Rebecca Koury is a contemporary painter based in Monterey, California, whose luminous, richly layered abstractions draw on the textures, colors, and rhythms of the natural world. She earned her BA from the University of Missouri, Kansas City and her MFA in sculpture, with a minor in art history, from the University of Texas at Austin. That sculptural training still shows in her paintings: she builds her canvases in dimensional layers of acrylic, metal leaf, and mixed media, working intuitively to create surfaces that read as both painted and constructed, letting structure and organic form hold each other in balance.

Koury's work is held in corporate and private collections across the country and abroad, including the Bellagio and Aria Resort in Las Vegas, the Ritz-Carlton Dubai, UCSF Medical Center, and the Waldorf Astoria Orlando, and she has shown in solo exhibitions at the Monterey Museum of Art and galleries throughout the Central Coast. She continues to paint from her studio in Monterey, drawing on patterns from fabric, ancient ruins, written language, and the shoreline just beyond her door. See less