How's My Dealing? 2.0

Worldwide Reviews by Artists for Artists of Galleries, Art Fairs, Mail Scams and more.

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  • Galeria Azur Madrid
    Thank for this! I just received an email from them. I looked at the sample contract and that’s a lot of money to pay, especially for an overseas artist like me. And to be honest, I can’t afford such fee....
  • PAKS Gallery and MAMAG Museum invite to exhibit at Cannes Film Festival, Art Basel Week and Carrousel du Louvre
    I also get their invitation. The website doesn’t show any addresses, there are no links to the artists work, the curator presents no curriculum and no names of staff....
  • Galeria Azur Madrid
    Thanks for this review! I had the exact same experience with them, via email, recently. And, btw, the low quality of the work is very telling. This is a scheme to make money for them only preying on emerging artists and individuals with little to no experience in the art world. If you wish to pay this sort of money for exposure I'd recommend putting it into a well established art fair that showcases artists...
  • Galería Azur Madrid: vanity gallery
    I recently got approached by Van Gogh. I asked a fellow artist friend and she warned me it was a vanity gallery, which led me on a rabbit hole tof vanity galleries in Madrid and found Galerie Azur as well. I've heard it can be bad to have these on your CV....
  • Galeria Azur Madrid
    There's also Galeria Azur Miami and Galeria Azur New York. Be aware!...
  • World of Art (WOA) Contemporay Art Magazine
    Quite an ad Russu has written above. Don't believe it! WOA is just one of many pay to play art magazines. Some might even say a scam. Anyway you want to put it, you end up losing your money and gain nothing. He's also behind Art Addiction Online Gallery and media 3.art biennial and many many others. You recognize them by the tacky and outdated graphics....
  • Galería Azur Madrid: vanity gallery
    Van Gogh Art Gallery is definitely a similar vanity gallery. It should have its own thread here. Another even more outrageous one is M.A.D.S. online gallery....
  • Residency Arquetopia
    I was disappointed in the Italian residency with Arquetopia in 2023. Arquetopia is a wonderful organization and I have attended their Puebla and Peru residencies in prior years. Those residencies were a great experience. I had wonderful exchanges with other artists. With the Italian residency, they did not follow their really good business model that was successful in Peru and Puebla. What I enjoyed with the other residencies is learning about...
  • ADC – Art Comes Alive Competition
    In one of Litsa's Facebook posts, I saw that one of my paintings had been sold and installed in a collector's home. She didn't bother to notify me of the sale until I asked her about it. I purchased advertising in their Blink publication for $1600. I found out through a friend of mine that they gave a "discount" to another artist. I never did get any of the heavily hyped...
  • Galeria Azur Madrid
    Thanks! Should we pay to exhibit? And that kind of money? Wo! Dont think so!...
  • Galería Azur Madrid: vanity gallery
    Me too! I saw the policy which explains the fees so I just assumed it was a lousy deal and to move on. Now seeing I’m not the only one, I’m thanking the internet for connecting me to others who confirm my initial suspicions. Thank you!...
  • Galería Azur Madrid: vanity gallery
    Just a heads up - watch out for 'Van Gogh Art Gallery' in Madrid as well. It seems to be a similar thing....
  • Galeria Azur Madrid
    same here, thank you....
  • Bruno Massa
    I have exhibited with Bruno Massa in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Corea,etc. Some of my paintings were sold. He kept the money of the solded paintings and didn’t want to give me back the other paintings. I have asked many many many many times to receive the money he owes me and I insisted on getting my 8 remaining paintings back but He didn’t answer. A lawyer tried to contact him but the adress was false....
  • World of Art (WOA) Contemporay Art Magazine
    World of Art (WOA) Contemporary Art magazine is a creative publishing enterprise focusing on contemporary art scene, from temporary exhibitions to the most cutting edge art spaces, featuring artists from around the world in a contemporary art magazine and collectable bibliophile limited edition art books published and edited by Petru Russu. Each WOA publication is a unique, vibrant, and well-designed way to explore the art world while bringing together the best of today’s emerging talent and...
  • Artavita Online Gallery
    Sure, I have been a member for many years. You can join for free with 6 paintings. Or choose a plan and pay. The up side of Artavita is that they do have legitimate low fee contests. If you win this is a good step forward to building up your c.v. I don't recommend the recent book publishing however. That is too expense and seems to add anyone who...
  • Residency Arquetopia
    Hi There, I am arriving in Puebla for my month residency at Arquetopia in 3 weeks. I just received the 34 page manual with all the rules. I have been excited about this residency for a year and a half. BUT NOW dreading it. The rules were VERY off putting and and mandatory meetings were nothing I was told about and could not care less about. Are the work spaces that bad? should I still...
  • Residency Arquetopia
    Hi There, I am arriving in Puebla for my month residency at Arquetopia in 3 weeks. I just received the 34 page manual with all the rules. I have been excited about this residency for a year and a half. BUT NOW dreading it. The rules were VERY off putting and and mandatory meetings were nothing I was told about and could not care less about. Are the work spaces that bad? should I still...
  • Art.Number23
    His names are Constantinos and Mikey...
  • Art.Number23
    This is the same guy, Constantine, who “ran” Boomer Gallery. Same MO. AVOID https://boomergallery.net/...
  • ADC – Art Comes Alive Competition
    Good question on the delivery and installation. I've always worked with my galleries and in certain situations, taking on the task to deliver is ok with me. Actually, in this case, they did not ask me in advance about the delivery. This further describes the nature of how ADC operates though. I wanted to keep the focus solely on the dishonest sale. I think your off to a great start because you are proactive...
  • Photographers should think twice about entering LensCulture
    It is my impression (after being a gullible member and spent far too much money on Lensculture's worldwide competitions, for exposing my work to stellar international juries).THAT they are primarily interested in the coarsest screaming new new new items of the year which disgust me. Of course they also have come up with the NEW HUMANISM which by their interpretation is SENSATIONAL and the reverse of anything humanist. Just my opinion in reverence to...
  • Galería Azur Madrid: vanity gallery
    Did you get any replies from her or did she suddenly no longer responded to you? That's what happened to me....
  • Galería Azur Madrid: vanity gallery
    About 30 artists per month, each paying 2000€, that makes 60 000€ per month. That's a lot of money! The artist just loses money....
  • Divulgarti group
    Isn't it strange that they rush your decision? The exhibition is so soon they hope you wouldn't have time to search for information and think carefully. Red flag!...
  • Art.Number23
    Back to Art Number 23 and it’s open call to Rome, which is not featuring on the website:https://www.artnumber23.uk I am being chased for payment, which is fair enough, but to each of my requests for info/assistance on shipping I get a variety of answers from not understkng what I say, find out yourself or we have sent it. I note that in an email of 6 Feb:We are currently working with the gallery in Rome, in...
  • Divulgarti group
    Interesting, they just reached out to me on Instagram too for an exhibit in Spain in March. It sounded too good to be true too vague. The first dm mentioned one museum/gallery then the email mentioned somewhere completely different....
  • Galeria Azur Madrid
    Hi I just received an email from the Berlin one too and I’ve asked for the paperwork. Now knowing it’s a scam it’s very disappointing because I thought I was getting somewhere. Thank you for heads up!!!...
  • Galería Azur Madrid: vanity gallery
    Now they are charging 2000.00. they reduced it for me to 1800... Glad I did not sign...
  • Art.Number23
    Just wondering if you have any feedback on your experience exhibiting with Art Nimber 23, if you, or anyone else has! Many thanks...
my experience with EAP

Hello everybody! first of all: thank you very much for this chat! i have the same problems. the contact was good at the beginning, all my emails were answered – until the time I paid the fee. Suddenly nobody contacted me anymore. I contacted my bank today to get the money back. I will also file a complaint. It cannot be that artists are exploited to make money. I can only advise everyone against doing business with EAP.

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The Emerging Artist Platform Hansford & Sons

I too have had problems with them. They are very difficult to get hold of. I sent an email via their website and have never received a reply (only an automated acknowledgement of receipt of my email). The telephone number on their website does not work and google brings up the number as a nuisance caller. The only way I got my page created was by pestering the 2 scouts who originally contacted me through Instagram, (even one of those ignored my request until I made a bigger fuss!) I did consider that maybe they are short staffed because of…

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Galeria Azur Madrid

This gallery contacted me through Instagram. I don’t want to sound rude, but what first caught my eye was the low quality of the artwork they were displaying. That can be disputed of course. It will cost the artist 1000€ to get 2 pieces on display in their physical group exhibition + 1 piece is there in the back room just in case (for what exactly??). The group exhibition lasts about a month. Also you get up to 10 pictures of your artworks for their online exhibition (including the 3 you sent them to the physical exhibition). They put them…

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Dab Art, got accepted but now afraid!

I’ve been reading bad reviews about this gallery, all of their locations. I was curated recently into an upcoming show. I live an hour away and was about to deliver my work for the take-in when I found all the bad reviews.I am supposed to drop off my artwork for a supposed “reception“ but now I’m afraid to do so for fear of wasting my time and maybe not getting my art work back. Did anybody have any good experiences with an actual opening and getting their work back in good condition? Should I just avoid the take-in and reception…

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anne wolk

this artist is horrible to deal with. Really aggressive and negative, and her eyes are on the side of her head. She looks like an alien.

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Beware of the scam

Artist Scams Alert Beware of the scam. I just want to To denounce the scam of Floriano, the owner of flyer art gallery, I tried to do it on the flyer art group, but unfortunately he blocked me, so I decided to write to my friends to encourage them to warn artists of this crook.. Beware of the scam, in 2020 that owner of flyer art gallery took my participation fees for the New York exhibition. Since then he has been bluffing me, this scammer he even tried to terrify me with his threats and refusing to return my money.…

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Emerging Artist Platform & Handsfords and sons are absolute pieces of crap.

This horrible couple Lucian Hector and Jazz Davies are frauds. I knew they were dodgy at first especially Lucian. I don’t know how I could even trust them. They looked professional and all because they had a big black car and carried your paintings to the exhibition studio. But one day they did the worst thing imaginable. The ripped my paintings to pieces and blamed it on me for getting cheap canvas when we were carrying them in our hands. They then made me sign a contract which I’m glad I refused because many people say that they are charging…

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