A couple of years ago Restoration Hardware opened a 28,000-square foot gallery, complete with roof garden in the Meatpacking District in New York. In August ArtNet reported that the gallery would close. While the brick & mortar venture was short-lived, the online outpost remains.
Restoration Hardware’s Contemporary Art Gallery offers what seem to be the same pieces that were on display in real life. ArtNet dismisses the artwork as mostly painting that “leans heavily toward decorative, easy-on-the-eyes abstraction.” I don’t care what they say. . . Maybe the artists won’t wind up at the Whitney (or maybe some will); I like them. No need to be snobby.
Here is a sampling of 15 pieces from Restoration Hardware’s Contemporary Art Gallery online. There are videos online too if you’re particularly interested in any of the artists, most of whom are from cities scattered throughout Europe.
Sohyun Bae, Frozen Lake, 2015
Rice paper and pure pigment on canvas, Sold
Meng Zhigang, No Difference Space – Bathe Stately, 2013
Oil on canvas, $7,500
Andres Galeano, Unknown Photographers #175 (Diptych), 2015
Found photo album pictures, C-prints, $4,480
Alessia Armeni, Painting Rome 07/04/14, 2014
and Painting Berlin 19/04/12, 2012
Oil on canvas, $7,000 each
Anna Virnich, Untitled (#12), 2013
Various fabric on wood stretcher, price upon request
Oystein Aasan, Untitled 2013, 2013
Oil on veneer, $4,200
Brice Bischoff, Bronson Caves #23, 2010
Edition 2 of 5, C_pring, $4,900
Koen Delaere, Untitled (Jeremi), 2014
Oil and acrylic on canvas, $9,000
Hilal Sami, Mandala, 2014
Copper and handmade paper, Price upon request
Maria Schumacher, Center of a Vicious Circle, 2014
Oil on canvas, $2,100
Troika, Drawing Together, Drawing Apart #02, 2014
Blank ink on paper, Price upon request
Aurora Passero, Triggers #1, 2015
Woven, hand dyed nylon, acrylic tube, Price upon request
Daniel Schubert, Untitled, 2015
Acrylic on canvas, $7,130
David Mohr, Inertia, 2015
Sand and acrylic gel on canvas, $800
Paul Weiner, Complaint and Information, 2015
Graphite and acrylic paint on canvas, $1,200
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