Rebecca Koury "Elliptical Landscape" Blue Teal Ellipse Contemporary Abstract, Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas, Carmel Ca Art, Future Forward, 2026

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Two stacked ellipses split this square canvas into something closer to a landscape than a pure abstraction: a pale, atmospheric … Read more Two stacked ellipses split this square canvas into something closer to a landscape than a pure abstraction: a pale, atmospheric form above, brushed and hazy like fog, resting on a denser wash of deep slate and teal blue below. The seam where they meet catches the eye first, an uneven, almost torn horizon line, before the eye settles into the quiet gradient inside each shape.

At 36 by 36 inches, this piece has the scale to anchor a sofa wall or entry on its own. Its cool, oceanic palette pulls beautifully against warm wood tones or a charcoal sectional, and it reads equally well in a coastal or a more urban, minimal interior.

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