ABOUT

Rebecca Brey is an abstract figure painter living 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 break away from rigid systems and examine how identity shifts beneath them.

Her paintings focus on the gap between constructed identity and lived experience. Faces are interrupted, partially concealed, or pushed out of alignment—disrupted by 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. These works resist a fixed reading, operating instead in a space where recognition and ambiguity coexist.

A woman with gray hair, wearing a headband, light blue shirt, and jewelry, sitting on a beige chair with a wooden tray attached, in a cozy room with shelves, plants, and blurred background.
A woman with gray hair, wearing a headband, light blue shirt, and jewelry, sitting on a beige chair with a wooden tray attached, in a cozy room with shelves, plants, and blurred background.