Rebecca Brey is an abstract figurative painter living and working in Los Angeles. A New Yorker for most of her adult life, she was born in Philadelphia and raised primarily in Kentucky.

Her work explores the tension between control and instability within the human figure. After years in structured corporate environments, she returned to painting to examine how identity is shaped, maintained, and disrupted under pressure.

She works in acrylic and oil on canvas, focusing on the gap between constructed identity and lived experience. Faces are interrupted, partially concealed, or pushed out of alignment through geometric forms, layered marks, and abrupt shifts in color.

In her current series, Masked Fragments, the figure is both present and obscured—held together and pulled apart at the same time. Her figures remain difficult to fully read, even as the emotion stays visible.