Rebecca Koury Original "In Repose" Grey Coral Rose Diptych Contemporary Abstract Painting, Acrylic on Canvas, Carmel California Art, 2020

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A pale, atmospheric grey sky gives way to a rich, unhurried band of coral and rose across the lower half … Read more A pale, atmospheric grey sky gives way to a rich, unhurried band of coral and rose across the lower half of this two-panel diptych, traced with a faint architectural line drawing that barely registers against the soft gradient behind it.
The gentle color shift and quiet composition give this piece a restful, contemplative quality, well suited to a bedroom or reading corner where a calmer palette matters more than boldness.

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