Maake Magazine

Maake Magazine Issue 17 is here! We are thrilled to announce our Featured Artists for this issue! Liz Ainslie @liz.ainslie Karen Azarnia @karenazarnia Olivia Baldwin @oliviaebaldwin Caetlynn Booth @caetlynnbooth Erin Castellan @erinecastellan_studio Melissa Dadourian @stringgirl Amy Guidry @amy_guidry_artist Annie Hayes @anniehayesart Mary Henderson @maryhendersonart Katie Kaplan @pennysmasher Abbi Kenny @abbihkenny William Lukas @kelpdreams Matthew Mahler @MatthewJMahler William Matheson @williammatheson JJ Miyaoka-Pakola @jj_miyaokapakola Nicholas Moenich @nich_moe_nich Dana Oldfather @danaoldfather Gail Spaien Linsey Tankersley @linseytankersley Julie Wills @juliewillsart Sarah Boyts Yoder @sarahboytsyoder Eunhae Yoo @ey_4d_ Ilana Zweschi @ilanazweschi Stay tuned for interviews with all of the included artists. Also in Issue 17! Artist-Spotlight: Lydia Smith @lydsroses Artist-Run: april april @april_______april Conversations: Erin Mallea & Tree News @erinmallea @_tree_news Art News: Project Spaces in Berlin by Miranda Holmes @disco.salad Including: alpha nova & galerie futura @alpha_nova_galeri_futura SAP space @sapspace.berlin NEW FEARS @newfears_gallery VORFLUTER @vorfluter Print issues are available in our shop: /store Issue 17 was curated by Emily Carol Burns @emaschillin #maake #maakemag #issue17 #artmagazine #contemporaryart #indiepublishing

We are celebrating ten years of Maake! We have published over 400 interviews across 18 print issues. Thank you to everyone who helps us bring the issues to life 💗 💫 Check out all of our full-length interviews on the site! #maake #maakemag #printmagazine #indiepublishing #contemporaryart #artmag

Thank you Pittsburgh Art Book Fair @pghartbookfair for having us! Huge thank you to the PABF organizers for an amazing experience, the presenters for sharing their work and to all of the visitors for stopping by. Thanks to Erin Mallea @erinmeallea and @_tree_news for sharing a table and being awesome 💫 Issue 17 is available now!!!! PS we have a crush on Pittsburgh 💝 #pabf #pittsburgh #indiepublishing #artmags #maake #maakemag

Today on Maake we talk with Louisiana-based painter Amy Guidry @amy_guidry_artist about her work and process. "Blurring the lines between fantasy and reality, this series uses dream language to convey the connection of life. Inspired by Surrealism, fantasy, and mythology, I use symbolism to comment on ecology, animal welfare, and our relationship to nature." Image: Black Swan, 2024. Acrylic on canvas, 16 x 20 inches . . . #AmyGuidry #maake #maakemagazine #maakemag #painting #surrealism #Maakeissue17

Today on Maake we talk with Brooklyn-based artist Eunhae Yoo @ey_4d_ about her work and process. "Fantasy weaves through all my works. Embracing otherworldliness along with nostalgia ultimately confronts my ongoing dissection of grief and loss as a part of the human condition. My focus on portals and dreaming up different realms address the lived experience of navigating a sociopolitical identity but also the broader themes of grief and loss that comes with displacement and estrangement." Full interview on the site! Images: signs, no. 2, 2023. Flameworked borosilicate glass, white brass, 2.1 in x 2.5 in x 2 in signs, no. 4, 2025. Flameworked borosilicate glass, white brass, 5 in x 3 in x 3 in . . . #EunhaeYoo #maake #maakemag #maakemagazine #issue17 #maake17 #artmagazine #artistrun #indiepublishing #contemporaryart #contemporarysculpture #glasssculpture #brooklynartist #brooklynart

Today on Maake we talk with Katie Kaplan @pennysmasher about her work and process! "My core is working with print on textiles. Fabrics feel expansive and full of potential for me in terms of what they can become, and what they invoke. The familiar tactile nature of a quilt can immediately form an intimacy, since every viewer is very in tune with the feel of cloth from a young age. That being said, some investigations in letterpress over the past few months have reignited an interest in working with paper as a way to create tactile ephemera." Check out the full interview on our website ✨ Images: Ahead! The Shimmering Edge, 2024. Screenprint and monoprint on fabric, dye, batting, 47 x 37 inches . . . #KatieKaplan #maake #maakemag #maakemagaizne #issue17 #printmaking #monoprint #screenprint #silkscreen

Today on Maake we talk with North Carolina-based artist Erin Castellan @erinecastellan_studio about her work and process. Full interview on the site. "I am interested in the idea of slow seeing. Particularly, I am interested in how efforts to slow and more fully experience the physical world can inspire a sense of wonder that connects humans to their surroundings and each other with empathy and compassion. I use paint, hand-embroidery and beading to craft physical images that encourage intimate and slow viewing experiences. Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about connection and care." Images: Dark Was the Day, 2022, hand-embroidery, acrylic paint on jacquard woven fabric, 25 x 22.75 Inches Strained Honey Light Puddle, 2025, hand-embroidery, glass beads, acrylic paint on canvas, 34 x 28 inches

Today on Maake we talk with Virginia-based painter Sarah Boyts Yoder @sarahboytsyoder about her work and process! "‘Selecting’ materials is a big part of my practice. I buy a LOT of my materials second hand, at a local creative reuse store called Scrappy Elephant. In graduate school I started buying gallons of mistinted interior latex paint at the hardware store in weird colors because it was so cheap and ‘official’ gesso was so expensive. It also gave me something to respond to right away because it wasn’t just blank and white. That’s become an important tool—introducing found materials that initiate or invite a response. It’s also something to do with ‘making it work’ with what is in front of you. What can you make? What can you do? What can you set in motion with what you’re given? I’m still personally choosing paint colors, I’m hunting and gathering. But I need to come across them in a way, be in the act of searching (which is curious and open minded and about a willingness to try something (which is about mischievousness, bravery and humility). I need to go to a place or put myself in a position where the materials can come across me. Then we can work together." Read the full interview on the site! Images: Jungle Cherry, 2025. Acrylic, oil, gouache on canvas, 48 x 42 inches. Magenta Guard, 2025. Acrylic, oil, gouache, charcoal on canvas, 48 x 42 inches. . . . #sarahboytsyoder #maakemag #maake #maakemagazine #painting #abstractpainting #contemporarypainting

Today on Maake we talk with Portland, Maine-based painter Gail Spaien @gailspaien about her work and process! Full interview on the site! ✨🌷 "Painting is, at its core, a perceptual experience. I use flattened space and slight distortions to create worlds that are visually alive. I like composing an optically decadent viewing experience that is activated by a back-and-forth between flatness and depth, so viewers shift how they’re seeing." Images: Red Tulips, 2024. Acrylic on linen, 52 x 48 inches Habitat, 2025. Acrylic on linen, 48 x 48 inches . . . #GailSpaien #maake #Maakaemag #maakemagazine #issue17 #contemporarypainting #painting

Today on Maake we talk with NYC-based painter Mathew Mahler @MatthewJMahler about his work and process. Full interview on the site! "Right now, the primary themes in my work stem from our shared cultural moment with digital technology and the way it continues to reshape our viewing habits. Like many people, my practice was profoundly affected by the pandemic. As an art educator, I spent nearly two years teaching remotely, which required me to digitize all of my in-person strategies—something I had rarely relied on before. I’ve always been a physically engaged person, drawn to direct, human interaction, and I found the shift to digital communication extremely limiting. For all of its conveniences, the more time I spent in front of a screen, the more disconnected and hollow I felt." Images: Screen Shot (Thought of a Thought), 2025. Acrylic on Black Burlap, 64 x 36 inches Screen Shot (Copy of a Copy), 2024. Acrylic on Black Burlap, 48 x 27 inches . . #matthewmahler #maake #maakemag #maakemagazine #issue17 #painting #contemporarypainting #abstraction #nycartist

Today on Maake we talk with NYC-based painter JJ Miyaoka-Pakola @JJ_MiyaokaPakola on his work and process! Check out the full interview on the site ✨ "My work is emotional and very personal, so it inherently reflects my environment. When I was in San Francisco the work meditated on the surrounding natural beauty of Northern California and the breaking down of boundaries with bodies moving through space. After moving to NY, I slowly shifted from the decay of matter in great expanses to enclosed spaces like caves to finally where I am now, the deterioration of language and its concurrent transfer of meaning. The representation of trees and great depths of field were replaced with words and the physicality of paint as a material itself." Images: Heavy Weight, Long Shadow, 2025 Acrylic and urethane on linen 70 x 51 inches Pushing Shoving Pulled, 2025 Acrylic and urethane on linen 37.5 x 30 inches . . . #JJMiyaoka-Pakola #maakemagazine #maake #maakemag #issue17 #painting #contemporarypainting #abstractpainting

Today on Maake, we talk with Baltimore-based artist Julie Wills @juliewillsart about her work and process! ✨Full interview on the site! "My material selection is intuitive and often starts by noticing things that jump out from my peripheral vision-- for example, the yellow plastic sleeves they put around guy wires on utility poles to keep you from tripping over the cables. Those caught my attention for their bright yellow color, but also for what they do: they alert you to a hidden obstacle. I use underground utility locator flags for the same metaphor. There is a formal aspect to the way I choose materials—color, texture, mass—but I also give a lot of care to their associations: that sandpaper abrades, or that thermostat wire signals heat." Images: Moon Ladder, 2023, drywall, dimensional lumber, builder’s chalk, marking paint, latex, pva primer, graphite, rigid foam insulation, roofing felt. 52"h x 48"w x 4"d Bullseye, 2024, drywall, dimensional lumber, rigid foam insulation, recycled denim, marking paint overspray on cardboard, plaster, locator flag, builder's chalk, vinyl lettering. 54.5"h x 48"w x 4.5"d #JulieWills #maake #maakemag #maakemagazine #issue17 #sculpture #visualart #contemporaryart