Rebecca Koury "Tapestry of the Ocean #2" Navy Blue Gold Contemporary Abstract Painting, Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas, Carmel California Art

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This oval deepens from a soft, hazy powder blue at the top into a rich, almost navy blue at its … Read more This oval deepens from a soft, hazy powder blue at the top into a rich, almost navy blue at its base, the transition smooth enough that it's hard to pinpoint exactly where one tone ends and the next begins. Set against Koury's patterned gold ground, the effect is less like a color block and more like a horizon line seen from high above open water.

Paired with its companion piece Tapestry of the Ocean, this makes a strong two-piece grouping for a collector wanting a matched set; on its own, it holds a wall well in a room with cooler, coastal tones.

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