(64) Open Studios

Ari Braverman is the author of the critically acclaimed The Ballad of Big Feeling (Melville House, 2020). Her work has appeared in BOMB, Guernica, the Believer, LARB, and the White Review. Braverman graduated with her MFA from Columbia University, where she was a recipient of multiple fellowships, and has edited fiction for prominent literary magazines including Conjunctions, the Columbia Journal, and the New Orleans Review. She was born in Iowa and now lives between the East River and a Costco

Tommy Kha (b. Memphis, Tennessee) received his Photography MFA from Yale University. He is the recipient of the Next Step Award, the CPW Vision Award, and is a 2022 NYSCA/NYFA Photography Fellow. His work has been published in NY Times, the New Yorker, and Foam. He is represented by Higher Pictures Generation and has had recent solo shows at Baxter St. (NY) and Blue Sky (OR), and has participated in group shows at Yancy Richardson (NY), the High Museum (GA), and the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art (NY). His work is in the collection of SFMoMA, and his first major publication, "Half, Full, Quarter." was published by Aperture in February 2023. He likes to think he takes after his great aunt, who “read too many books and went crazy.” He lives and works between New York City and Memphis.

Coco Klockner is an artist and writer. She is the author of the speculative novella K-Y (Genderfail Press, 2019) and her essays have appeared in Texte Zur Kunst, Spike Art Magazine, Disclaimer/Liquid Architecture, and The Whitney Review. Klockner has had solo exhibitions at Silke Lindner, New York; Bad Water, Knoxville, TN; stop-gap projects, Columbia, MO; The Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA; Vent Space, Baltimore, MD; and has a forthcoming exhibition at SculptureCenter. She received an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2019 and a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2014. She is director of the project space hatred 2 in Brooklyn, NY.

Lydia McCarthy is a Brooklyn-based artist and social worker. Her photographs and videos have been exhibited at 106 Green, Essex Flowers, Sardine and the Scandinavia House in New York, Hidrante in San Juan, Sports Hall Window in Helsinki and A-DASH in Athens. She has been reviewed and published in The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Art F City, The Wall Street Journal, Dossier and the Huffington Post. In 2011, Lydia was awarded a yearlong American-Scandinavian Foundation Fellowship for work in northern Sweden and she served as an Associate Professor of Photography at Alfred University for nine years. She is currently a postgraduate therapist at the Greene Clinic, a sliding scale psychotherapy practice based in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.