Issue 13 / 2022

Featured Artists

Curated by Tyler Lafreniere

Jessica Alazraki / Cindy Bernhard / Darien Bird / Jason Brooks / Ryan Browning / Samantha Buchanan
Shawn Campbell / Courtney Childress / Loren Erdrich / Witt Fetter / Charlie Goering / Alexis Granwell
Langdon Graves / Alex Hutton / Noah Kashiani / Sung Hwa Kim / Minjung Lee / Michael Gac Levin
Sung Eun Park / Lauren Pirie / Christine Rebhuhn / Meredith Sellers / Wade Tullier / Robert Zehnder

ARTIST-RUN

Commonweal / Medium Tings / The Valley

SPOTLIGHT ARTISTS

Nikki Lau / Danny Ferrell / Poppy DeltaDawn / Daniela Gomez-Paz / Ben K. Voss

CONVERSATIONS

Mike Cloud / Raven Halfmoon

INTERVIEWS

FEATURED ARTISTS

Alexis Granwell

Sung Hwa Kim

Meredith Sellers

Witt Fetter

Ryan Browning

Samantha Buchanan

Robert Zehnder

Lauren Pirie

Minjung Lee

Langdon Graves

Shawn Campbell

Jason Brooks

Loren Erdrich

Wade Tullier

Christine Rebhuhn

Darien Bird

Noah Kashiani

Sung Eun Park

Alex Hutton

Cindy Bernhard

Charlie Goering

Jessica Alazraki

Courtney Childress

Michael Levin

ARTIST-RUN

Commonweal

Medium Tings

The Valley

SPOTLIGHT ARTISTS

Nikki Lau

Danny Ferrell

Poppy DeltaDawn

Daniela Gomez Paz

Ben K. Voss

CONVERSATIONS

Mike Cloud

Raven Halfmoon

About the Curator

Tyler Lafreniere

Tyler Lafreniere is a visual artist based in Queens, NY. In 2006, Lafreniere earned his BA in Fine Art from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. During his undergraduate studies, he also concentrated in Printmaking at Goldsmiths University in London. He has had solo exhibitions at LAUNCH F18, New York and Dose Projects, Brooklyn, NY and participated in numerous group exhibitions in New York and around the United States. Lafreniere is also a co-founder of Mrs. gallery in Maspeth, Queens.

Curator’s Statement
Curating a set of artworks generally involves thinking ahead to how they will live and converse together in a physical space. How big is this painting related to that one? How will these colors reflect onto the floor sculpture over there? What about the blueish tone from the color temperature of the lights? Selecting works for a printed collection offers an opportunity to throw all these constraints out the window and pick purely based on that exciting tingle of emotion you get when a work strikes you like a discovered treasure. It’s with an embrace of this freedom that I’ve approached the curation of artworks to include in this issue of Maake. Though varied in their media and nature, all the works in this issue have in one way or another gotten my heart going.

Find out more about Tyler and his work here.