Artist's Studio: How About the Living Room?

NEW YORK — Erin Lorek is an artist whose practice involves casting sheets of glass using large iron plates, work that would ideally be done in a concrete-floored, industrial warehouse with a freight elevator, rather than the living room of a shared, three-bedroom apartment in a Bedford-Stuyvesant brownstone. “Mine is not a very romantic situation — the huge beautiful Brooklyn loft. It’s never been that for me,” said Lorek, 41, who works full time doing production lighting and pays $1,250 a mo...