OPEN HOUSE, OPEN GALLERY
A Celebration of Art, Artists, and the Homes We Treat Like Art
🗓️ Friday, April 4 | 6:30–8:00 PM
This Friday evening, we’re blending creativity and community in a way only Maplewood can. OPEN HOUSE, OPEN GALLERY is a one-night-only event where real estate meets fine art—a progressive celebration through four stunning homes that double as pop-up galleries.
Explore beautifully staged homes, sip on Prosecco, enjoy small bites, and immerse yourself in the work of four exceptional local artists. Whether you're house hunting, art collecting, or just looking to be inspired, this is a night not to miss.
36 Rutgers St. – "Maplewood Gem"
Featured Artist: Niv Ben-Adi | @Atelier036_ART
ARTIST BIO: Niv Ben-Adi Born in Jerusalem, Israel in 1965. Graduated from the School of Architecture at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. Niv’s work is mostly interested in unraveling the immediate sub-conscious truths. His abstract images possess both human and machine-like manifestations; together they create a dynamic and intense composition of vibrant colors and broad strokes. Most of his work is done on medium to large size canvases using charcoal, photography oil paint, more recent work uses small scale format and watercolor. Niv's work is passionate and embraces a tremendous amount of emotion formed around everyday events and life experiences. Traces - links between his background in architecture can be seen as the contributor to the strong sense of form and structure in his art, even as he immerse into the abstraction.
Over the year Niv participated in group shows in NYC and Several studio Art tours in Maplewood
On instagram - @Atelier036_ART
13–15 Plymouth Ave. – "Contemporary Classic"
Featured Artist: Sarah Klein | @skleinstudio
ARTIST BIO: Sarah Klein is a fine-artist as well as an award-winning director of nonfiction films and immersive installations. Her abstract 'dreamscapes' are in response to the landscapes, both emotional and physical, that she encounters through her film projects. Klein is the co-founder of Redglass Pictures and lives in Maplewood, NJ with her child, Ro.
107 Hilton Ave. – "Loft-Like Living"
Featured Artist: Stephanie Penn-Virot | @sdpenn.art
ARTIST BIO: Stephanie Penn is a visual artist inspired by dream landscapes and journeying, ancestor connection, psychedelic experience, magic realism, writing, and dance/choreography. Her paintings and drawings are musings and messages about love, family, motherhood, and ancestry and lineage. Dance informs her mark making, the consideration of wandering line and the occupation of space and the hope that the viewer’s eye might dart from moment to moment unsure of where or at what one should look first. Her work incorporates drawing, collage, watercolor, acrylic, and other found media to explore connection, loss, longing, and the traversing of different realms. Stephanie works in layers, adding and subtracting, tracing and digging and scraping at something just out of reach. The search is in both the image and the image making. The “Bonnet Series” references black hair, protective styles, and the communal experience of sitting in circle with elders as they work through one’s hair. Other works consider our space in the natural world and where we’ve been before.
Stephanie’s work has been included in group showings at The Pierro Gallery/The Baird, South Orange, the SOMA Studio Tours at SOPAC and on the tour route, The Painting Center, NYC, Ban This: A Group Exhibition Benefitting the ACLU Drag Defense Fund, and as a featured artist at different locations for Women on the Windows. Work is updated regularly on Stephanie’s Instagram account: @sdpenn.art.
50 Highland Ave. – "Quintessential Maplewood"
Featured Artist: Michelle Oosterbaan | @mjoosterbaan
ARTIST BIO: Michelle Oosterbaan’s drawings, wall paintings, and installations describe relationships between motion/stasis, and investigate ideas of cartography, memory and the idea of place, in an ever-evolving notion of the sublime landscape.
The traditions of architecture, science, religion, and poetry, deeply inform her current work. Her wall paintings chart and change space within the given circumstances of architecture. Her large drawings are cognitive maps that reflect my impressions of being in the world. Her working process is improvisational as the act of drawing guides her search for a new narrative.
Her fascination with light and land is rooted in her studies of plein-air painting as a teenager in Washington D.C. A prolific traveler, her residency fellowships include the Cite des Arts International, (Paris 2008), The MacDowell Colony (2004), Yaddo, as a John T. and Catherine E. MacArthur Fellow (2003, 2005), and VCCA (2016, 2009, 2006.) Additionally, travel to residencies in Austria, The Netherlands, Iceland, and Berlin, Germany have expanded her research.
Oosterbaan has exhibited internationally including the Weatherspoon Art Museum, The Drawing Center, The Delaware Art Museum, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and Museum, The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO. Recent public art projects include the Democratic National Convention and the Mural Arts Philadelphia. Her drawings are in the Contemporary Drawing Pierogi 2000 Flat Files and The Drawing Center Viewing Program. Oosterbaan’s work has received critical responses in Art Papers, The New Yorker, and Fukt, Berlin, among others.
She has experience in the public art realm designing community based (interior and exterior) public art commissions in collaboration with the DNC, The Mural Arts Program, The Moore College of Art, and The University of Pennsylvania.
She has a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis as a Fred Conway Scholar and an MFA from Indiana University with post-graduate studies in Florence, Italy with S.A.C.I and Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
Currently she teaches Introduction to Drawing at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA, and Drawing: Line in the Landscape the CE department of The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA.
Get to know more about Michelle, CLICK HERE.
✨ Come for the homes, stay for the art.
Enjoy a glass of bubbly, connect with neighbors, and experience the beauty of real estate and fine art in perfect harmony. This experience is free and open to all, with refreshments throughout the evening provided by Matt Keane, SVP of RATE Mortgage.
FEELING GENEROUS?
We are deeply committed to increasing as success and equity to arts education for all children in the SOMS D. Please consider making a donation to the Pollock arts initiative in response to this night of creativity and community.
Whether you're a design lover, art enthusiast, or just curious, this is your night to celebrate all the creative energy that makes Maplewood so special.
