Rebecca Koury "Evolution of a Circle #2" Burnt Orange Circle Contemporary Abstract, Acrylic on Canvas/Panel, Carmel California Art

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A single traced circle sits low within a warm field of burnt orange, its surface built from layered horizontal strokes … Read more A single traced circle sits low within a warm field of burnt orange, its surface built from layered horizontal strokes that catch light like sediment or sun-worn stone, the color deepening toward the bottom edge of the canvas.

Part of Koury's five-part Evolution series, this piece explores repetition through a shifting, warm-toned palette, and pairs naturally with the cooler #4 for a collector wanting contrast within the set.

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