About Goldstick Studio

Karen Goldstick is the founding Principal of Goldstick Studio. She established Goldstick Lighting Design, Ltd. in 1999 offering full lighting design services from design concepts through construction completion. Her 41-year career includes projects of large and small scale for academic facilities, corporate interiors, medical facilities, retail, site and landscape, sports venues, restaurants, building façade and lobbies, airports, and hotels.

She is a Parsons School of Design graduate and has held senior positions at Horton Lees Lighting Design, Lighting Design Partnership in London, and Flack + Kurtz Consulting Engineers as Director of Lighting. Karen has authored numerous articles on sports lighting and many of her projects have received architectural awards for design and energy conservation.

As Principal, Karen represents the firm and its design work with clientele. She is hands-on with the development of initial design concepts and review of the final design prior to issuing construction documents.

Kalynn Amadio, MIES is a Principal at Goldstick Studio. She holds a BS in Architectural Engineering with a concentration in electrical systems and lighting design. She has extensive project management and design experience over the past 35 years for a variety of projects in all categories of construction. Included in that experience are the design of K-12 and higher education facilities, corporate headquarters, hotels, airports, and multi-family residences.

As a Principal at GS, Kalynn is responsible for collaborating on the design vision and direction of design efforts for the project during the production phases. She is instrumental in creating design details and navigating technical coordination of project concepts including custom fixture design, lighting controls, circuiting, and emergency lighting compliance. Kalynn also serves as our resident lighting engineer providing collaborative engineering support for the MEP team on a project-by-project basis.

Beth Turomsha is an Associate Principal at Goldstick Studio.  She has extensive project and architectural lighting design experience over the past 17 years.  Prior to that, she worked as a theatrical lighting designer for 10 years.  Beth has design experience in every project sector with a bulk of that work in corporate interiors, academic and residential.  She believes close collaboration with architects and interior designers is essential, to create a holistic design approach to every space.

As Associate Principal at GS, she is active in design development, concept presentation, production, and coordination with the architect and other design team members.

Tyrell Lundman is Design Director at Goldstick Studio. He has a Master of Architecture degree from City College of New York (CCNY).

Ty has extensive project and design experience with GS ranging from corporate interiors, academic facilities, custom fixture design, exterior lighting, hotels, multi-family highrises, and community centers. Included is design and detail work for six multi-family and mixed-use retail projects in the New York City area, retail spaces at the new LaGuardia Airport Central Terminal B, Chelsea Pier 60, academic auditoriums, and corporate headquarters in the Westchester, NY, and Fairfield, CT areas. He has also become instrumental in project management for GS.

As Design Director, Ty is active in design development, concept presentation, production, and coordination with the architect and other design team members.