Rebecca Koury "Opal Eclipse" Taupe Gold Eclipse Contemporary Abstract, Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas, Carmel California Art, Future Forward, 2026

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A soft, opalescent oval rests on warm taupe, its lower curve traced in a thin band of gold leaf that … Read more A soft, opalescent oval rests on warm taupe, its lower curve traced in a thin band of gold leaf that catches the light like the rim of a true eclipse. The palette is quieter than its companion piece Eclipsing The Past, closer to stone or shell than metal, with the gold used as accent rather than dominant color.

Opal Eclipse works equally well in a minimalist, neutral-toned room or a warmer, textured interior, and pairs naturally with the other ellipse works in the series for a collector building out a matched grouping.

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