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

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The first of Koury's ocean-toned Tapestry works, this oval shifts from a pale, misty grey-blue at the top down into … Read more The first of Koury's ocean-toned Tapestry works, this oval shifts from a pale, misty grey-blue at the top down into a deep, saturated navy at its base, the gradient worked in enough thin layers that it never reads as flat or mechanical. The intricately patterned gold border frames the gradient the way an old map might frame open water.

This piece pairs naturally with its companion, Tapestry of the Ocean #2, for a collector building out the series, though it stands well on its own as a quiet, deep-toned anchor for a bedroom or hallway.

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