Rachel Machinist

Visual Art – Pittsburgh

Rachel is an artist originally from the Western New York area, a Pittsburgh resident for 10 years. She studied Animation and developed her focus on traditional life drawing and 2D work at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. She graduated with honors in 2012, and has since moved to working in tattooing. She believes the traditional foundation she worked to develop earlier on to be fundamental to doing what she loves for a living. Aside from tattooing, the body of her work is made up of life studies and watercolor painting.