Rebecca Koury "Eclipsing the Past" Gold Black Eclipse Contemporary Abstract, Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas, Carmel Ca Art, Future Forward, 2026

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A luminous, gold-leafed oval sits low against a stark black field, sliced cleanly by a pale horizontal band above it, … Read more A luminous, gold-leafed oval sits low against a stark black field, sliced cleanly by a pale horizontal band above it, day and eclipse held in the same frame. It's the most graphically bold piece in the Future Forward series, high contrast, hard-edged, and unapologetically dramatic where the rest of the series leans toward atmosphere.

This is the piece for a collector who wants a genuine focal point rather than a quiet background note, ideal above a fireplace, console, or anywhere the room can build outward from one striking, saturated anchor.

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