Rebecca Koury "Tapestry of the Grid" Lavender Gold Brocade Contemporary Abstract Painting, Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas, Carmel California Art

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A pale lavender oval sits at the center of this canvas, its surface etched with a fine geometric grid that … Read more A pale lavender oval sits at the center of this canvas, its surface etched with a fine geometric grid that reads almost like graph paper stretched over glass. Around it, Koury builds a dense, ornate ground in metal leaf, patterned with the kind of repeating motifs you'd find in an antique textile or old brocade wallpaper, gold catching light unevenly wherever the surface has been worked by hand.

The tension between the soft, hand-drawn oval and the ornate, almost architectural border is what gives this piece its depth; it photographs well but is genuinely better in person, where the metal leaf's texture becomes obvious. A strong choice for a room that already has some pattern or texture to play against.

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