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# A View from the Easel
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/a-view-from-the-easel-51/
- Published: 2014-05-08T11:03:46.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:33:31.000Z
- Description: Artist studios in California, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, and Costa Rica.
- Author: Philip A Hartigan
- Tags: Community, A View From the Easel, Artists Studios, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:03 (2014, 2015, part 1)

CHICAGO — The 66th installment of a [series](http://hyperallergic.com/tag/a-view-from-the-easel/) in which artists send in a photo and a description of their workspace. Want to take part? Submit your studio — just check out the [submission guidelines](http://hyperallergic.com/47316/submit-your-workspace-to-a-view-from-the-easel/).

## Lynn Tsan, Chicago, Illinois ([site](http://www.lynntsan.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com))

![tsan-640](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/05/tsan-640.jpg)

I’ve been eyeing the small rectangular loft above my kitchen for months. The ceiling is a very cozy 5′ 3”. I am 5′ 2″, so I can stand up, and stretch — carefully. There is exactly enough room for two 80″ hollow core doors and a surprising amount of floor space left over to roll around on with my little blue desk chair. I have moved new work upstairs and have reclaimed my dining room table. Over the wooden balcony rails, I have a bird’s eye view of the entire studio and out the windows. I love it up here!

## Joe LaMattina, Hackensack, New Jersey ([site](http://www.joelamattina.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com))

![lamattina-640](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/05/lamattina-640.jpg)

In the summertime, I use my suburban backyard as my studio. The landscape is covered in paint. For the rest of the year I’ve converted my smallest bedroom into my art studio. I can simply walk in my pajamas and slippers to the next door. Company can sleep on an air mattress under that table, *if* they really need to stay over.

## Jill Kerwick, Herradura, Costa Rica ([site](http://jillkerwick.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com))

![JillKerwickstudio-640](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/05/jillkerwickstudio-640.jpg)

I work in Costa Rica for five months of the year. I stop what I am doing when the macaws come by in the afternoon. At night, mango-sized frogs visit. I set up environments I want to photograph. The natural light is perfect. I use some of my paintings and some of my 91 year old father’s paintings in my environments. I make collages in Photoshop from photos taken in New Jersey and Costa Rica.

## Kal Spelletich, San Francisco, California ([site](http://kaltek.org/?ref=hyperallergic.com))

![pelletich-640](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/05/pelletich-640.jpg)

The machine on the right rolls forward and the “arms” wrap around you. My two drill presses are in the background, there’s a drawing robot on the left sheet of plywood, several mechanisms on the floor, a heart beat/respiration monitor on its side, and no, I never made it to The Total Woman Expo. This is where I have worked every day since 1995.

## Audree Anid, Brooklyn, New York ([site](http://www.audreeanid.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com))

![audreeanidstudio-640](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/05/audreeanidstudio-640.jpg)

My studio is located in an industrial warehouse that has been transformed into a wood-shop with a few studio spaces that are shared by artists, designers, and musicians. I often hear the strums of a guitar pouring through the walls of my studio. I’ve been working in this space for about a year and I refer to it as my own sort of haven and means to escape from the chaos of the city. I like to keep things minimal and clean, so as not to distract from the artwork I create. My glass palette is centered in the studio, a good distance from my work so that I can always take a step back and consider what I’ve made.