Rebecca Koury "Tapestry of Mutuality" Gold Black White Contemporary Abstract Painting, Acrylic and Mixed Media on Canvas, Carmel California Art

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A glowing, gold-leafed oval rests atop a composition split cleanly between white above and black below, the metal leaf catching … Read more A glowing, gold-leafed oval rests atop a composition split cleanly between white above and black below, the metal leaf catching light unevenly so the oval seems to flicker slightly as you move past it. The title points directly at what the piece is doing visually: warmth held against shadow, ornament against plainness, two opposites resolved into one steady form.

A strong pairing partner for Tapestry of Natures Balance if a collector wants to hang the two together, though it carries plenty of presence as a single statement piece in an entry or dining room.

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