Rebecca Koury Original "Soul Talk" Crimson Burgundy Diptych Contemporary Abstract Painting, Acrylic on Canvas, Carmel California Art, 2021

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A deep, weathered field of crimson and burgundy spans this two-panel diptych, split by a thin white seam running between … Read more A deep, weathered field of crimson and burgundy spans this two-panel diptych, split by a thin white seam running between the panels, the color built up in layers dense enough to feel almost sedimentary, like rock strata.
The richly worked surface gives this piece real intimacy at close range, a strong pick for a hallway or stairwell where people naturally pass close enough to notice its texture.

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