Cake Zine features fruit painting by MFA Alum Lydia Kegler

Lydia Kegler's 2 feet by 3 feet oil painitng "Mangoes" was featured in Cake Zine Volume 7: Forbidden Fruit, 2025.

Forbidden Fruit, explores how fruit fuels temptation and transgression. It’s one hundred and six pages of essays, recipes, art, and more.

Cake Zine is a literary print magazine exploring art, history, and pop culture through food.

Kegler notes that "It’s always a pleasure of mine to paint fruit and making this piece for Cake Zine’s forbidden fruit issue felt just right. It's the  first of my blue fruit paintings to reveal a product sticker. "Mangoes" is paired with Ibrahim Abdulhakeem’s story “The Mango Smuggler’s Lament” in Forbidden Fruit.

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Kegler currently works as a kindergarten teacher in New York City.

See more on Kegler's art here.