Before natural wine shops made their home in Ridgewood, groups of college-educated visual artists and sculptors had staked their claim to less expensive apartments further along the L line. This coming weekend, a hundred or so of them will present work that celebrates just that, among other accomplishments, in the debut run of Ridgewood Open Studios.   

Inspiration comes, logically, from Bushwick Open Studios, a longer-running and, as such, more-organized event run by groups who aspire to make coffee table books one year and work “hard on breaking the hierarchy between art and the community” the next. The vibe of the Ridgewood version is that Ridgewood remains more chill, relaxed, just-come-around-and-let-me-show-you-what-I’ve-been-working-on, that’s it.

Many of the artists are painters spitting sunny abstractions of misremembered youth, photographers delicately pouring resin over inkjet prints and sculptors arguing in woodwork. For a weekend, they will crawl out of their studios, often located in the spare rooms of their rented homes, and try to make a sale or attract more Instagram followers.