Couples

For the show, Cultured asked five of the couples what it is like to mix the professional with the personal. On the best part of being with another artist, Lewis answered: “They understand why you are so crazy. They themselves are crazy.” Lonegan: “The best thing is understanding one another. It’s not an easy life.”

They met in graduate school at UCLA and once shared a studio in Atwater Village, divided with an L shape — Lonegan using it during the day, Lewis at night. “We grew out of that pretty quickly,” she said. They now work fifteen minutes apart and visit each other’s studios three or four times a year.

On jealousy, Lewis: “It’s hard being an artist so it’s natural to feel jealousy, but I honestly want the world for her as much as I want things for myself.” On what he is proudest of: “I remember being really proud when she was in ‘Made in L.A.’”

Quoted from Julia Halperin, “‘The Studio Is the Only Other Woman’: 5 Artist Couples on What It’s Like to Share a Calling,” Cultured, 22 April 2026.

Artists

Regina Bogat & Alfred Jensen, Trudy Benson & Russell Tyler, Claudia DeMonte & Ed McGowin, Francesca DiMattio & Garth Weiser, Tamara Gonzales & Chris Martin, Madge Knight & Charles Houghton Howard, Luchita Hurtado & Lee Mullican, Sahar Khoury & Alicia McCarthy, Caitlin Lonegan & Spencer Lewis, Jeanne Reynal & Thomas Sills, Joyce Robins & Thomas Nozkowski, Jackie Saccoccio & Carl D’Alvia, Michelle Segre & Steve DiBenedetto