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# A View from the Easel
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/a-view-from-the-easel-72/
- Published: 2015-05-01T21:27:17.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:31:30.000Z
- Description: Artist studios in California, Kansas, Ohio, and Italy.
- Author: Philip A Hartigan
- Tags: Community, A View From the Easel, Artists Studios, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:08 (2014, 2015, part 2)

CHICAGO — The 87th 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/).

## Frank Herrman, Cincinnati, Ohio ([site](http://www.herrmannart.com/index.html?ref=hyperallergic.com))

![herrman](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/05/herrman.jpg)

This has been my studio since 1986\. It used to be the former transformer station for the trollies that ran in my neighborhood, and I purchased it from the sheriff’s sale. It is a brick building with thick walls, floor, and roof. Built to get rid of heat, I capped the large roof vents with skylights, insulated the ceiling and had gas service for heat run to the building. It has a high ceiling, full bath and rooms for storage such as flat files, painting racks, and hanging small paintings. I like all the space above my head while I’m working. It seems just the right size work my painting practice where I can have stations for large scale work, drawing as well as small paintings.

## Filippo La Vaccara, Milan, Italy ([link](http://www.italianarea.it/opera.php?w=1373901271-74.jpg&artista=LAVL&let=L&ref=hyperallergic.com#alfabeto%5Fartists))

![Filippo La Vaccara](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/05/filippo-la-vaccara.jpg)

By moving to a very large space, I felt a sense of emptiness. So I began to think and create sculptures that would not only fill it, but also populate it. The result was a kind of “Noah’s Ark.”

The sculptures are made ​​of wood, fabric, and acrylic paint. Now I have to move them from time to time to create new space.The sense of emptiness and loneliness has gone. On the other hand, however, I start to move with difficulty in a place that is now a bit crowded!

## Suzi Long, Mendocino, California ([site](http://www.suzilong.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com))

![long](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/05/long.jpg)

I wake up with the dawn breaking through my windows and look for whales since I can see the horizon from where I sleep now on the third floor of the watertower. I wind down 10 spiral steps to the second floor office and cross through there and the bathroom into my kitchen studio workshop space. I give my cat some food and put the water on for my coffee and return to my aerie to dress for the day. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday I walk for an hour with a friend. Once I’m finished with my breakfast, during which I check my email, I usually do some computer work at my desk before I ever get to my studio or outdoors.

Getting out to paint in the morning is always a joy. And I try to go out at least two times a week. If not, I spend probably the hour or two hours before lunch working on whatever is on the board in my studio. I have a corner with two sections of fiberboard wall space that I use for an easel. One is about 6 feet and the other is about 4 feet. I can do up to seven small pieces one time. My free standing easel is also nearby next to my big box of Sennelier pastels that is open on a wheeled surface. It’s a great space, it’s a large window on one side with a great view, and French doors on the other. My work table is on wheels and buy frames are stored above the fiberboard wall. I will more often than not frame a plein air piece the same day that I painted it. And I put a label on the back and give it a title and take it downstairs to my gallery.

## Dwora Fried-Dreilinger, Los Angeles, California ([site](http://www.dworafried.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com))

![fried dreilinger](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/05/fried-dreilinger.jpg)

My studio is a converted garage in the back of our house. I like working at night, when it’s quiet, so I have plenty of strong light. My daughters and my wife like to drop in and chat, the dogs sleep next to the door and the radio is blasting classical music.

I work with mixed media boxes, so there is a lot of everything: paint, photographs, toys, fabric, metal, plastic, wood, glue, nails, hammers … It looks messy, but I know where to find everything.

## Eli Gold, Salina, Kansas ([site](http://elikgold.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com))

![Gold](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2015/05/gold.jpg)

This is not my normal studio. This warehouse was mine for the duration of a recent residency at the Salina Art Center. This is by far the most space I have ever had to myself and being able to drive straight into my studio was a luxury I may never have again. The junk in the background is stuff I have collected for the installation I worked on in the art center’s gallery. Sometimes all that quiet space felt lonely, but most days it was perfect