Rachel is a New York–based mixed media artist whose work spans physical assemblage, collage, experimental video, and emerging forms of cross-disciplinary collaboration. Her practice explores the psychological and embodied experiences that shape human behavior—identity, pressure, belief, contradiction, and the subtle emotional currents that move between people.

With a Master’s degree in Applied Psychology from New York University, Mariotti works professionally as both a licensed mental health therapist and full-time fitness coach. The interplay between mind and body is central to her creative process; themes of emotional circuitry, fragmentation, restraint, and resilience often surface across her work, regardless of medium.

Raised in Youngstown, Ohio in the industrial “Steel Valley,” Mariotti grew up around tools, machinery, and the engineering sensibility of her father. While this environment shaped her early material intuition, her current practice remains open and evolving—incorporating found objects, photography, sound, and film as she expands her visual language.

Mariotti balances her practice with raising her young daughter, whose presence continually informs her understanding of perception, vulnerability, and the reinvention of self.