How's My Dealing? 2.0

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

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  • Art.Number23
    Totally unprofessional to deal with, Laura Sottosanti has been the least professional person I’ve ever had to deal with in my career. Avoid, they are criminals and will get what they deserve in time. I think they just sell the art and keep the money for themselves....
  • Galeria Azur Madrid
    Great information, thank you. I'll send them similar answer to held further contacts away. Thanks again!...
  • Virtual Artists
    Yes, I had an experience with virtual artists co uk and it was a bad one. You're right, I think it classifies as a vanity gallery and I very much regret having had "exhibited" with them. I joined one of their group exhibits and the experience was a smooth one, so I did not expect my solo exhibit with them to have gone as badly as it did. Next to no communications leading up to...
  • UAE Art Collector / Global Art Awards / Global Art Agency
    Please exercise caution at this time. Attention! We have received a report regarding Joelle Dinnage, who owns the Global Art Agency. It has come to our attention that this individual is suspected of engaging in fraudulent activities by targeting artists through a scam email related to The Shanghai International Art Fair, scheduled to take place from November 16th to 19th, 2023. Joelle Dinnage is the owner of the Global Art Agency. Please exercise caution and...
  • PAKS Gallery and MAMAG Museum invite to exhibit at Cannes Film Festival, Art Basel Week and Carrousel du Louvre
    I too, have received at least 4 initiations in the last 4 weeks. The price is way too high and there is no visible human contact on the email....
  • Holy Art Gallery?
    Pictures, websites and promotions outside of artist call. Without these uts a vanity gallery and nothing less....
  • Holy Art Gallery?
    I like to see pictures and hear about all the successful sales....
  • Holy Art Gallery?
    I have found the same at a recent exhibition. My emails are now going unanswered and I am being ignored. There seems to be an embargo on negative comments too. Lesson learnt for me and hope for you too my friend....
  • Holy Art Gallery?
    These texts will hardly disappear from here, like on other platforms, so you don't have to keep the thread alive in that sense. The most important thing is to write the name of the gallery clearly and many times so that it pops up in search engines. You should also use words like "review", because many artists are probably looking for information with the words "The Holy Art Gallery Reviews". Gallery certainly does that. That's...
  • Residency Arquetopia
    everyone please leave google reviews, that is the only way the public will know your feelings!...
  • Holy Art Gallery?
    IM SOOOOOOO GRATEFUL YOU SPENT Your precious time writing this. I am about to cancel exhibiting with them. You have saved me £185 and a lot of disappointment and pointless effort – thank you so much – point to note, I have just exhibited at Boomer, Gallery, and pretty much had the same experience– these people are just ripping off artists that are craving for acknowledgement and willing to pay to get it. It’s really...
  • Agora
    Agora Galleria has a new plot. They emailed out of the blue. Email didn't come from Agora Gallery but from AGI Fine Art. It took me a while to find the connection to Agora Gallery, because it wasn't clearly stated in the email nor on their website. The email came from the same person from Gallery Agora as before, but the email address they used was different This time I was asked to participate in...
  • Agora Gallery
    Check another thread: https://howsmydealing.com/2016/12/15/agora/...
  • Virginia Damptsa
    only those marked as such...
  • Virginia Damptsa
    How many of these posts are from the Admin?...
  • Virginia Damptsa
    that is not correct, your comment was just recently posted, that is not an old comment - admin...
  • Virginia Damptsa
    that is incorrect, no positive comments were ever blocked - admin...
  • Virginia Damptsa
    I posted mine 2 years ago. The positive comment only just turned up on this post....
  • Virginia Damptsa
    Suspicious is that this platform blocked all the positive comments all these years....
  • Holy Art Gallery?
    ARTISTS BEWARE! My Experience with The Holy Ary Gallery - A Cautionary Tale I feel compelled to share my recent experience with The Holy Ary Gallery to prevent other artists from facing a similar situation. After being "handpicked" by the gallery to participate in one of their group exhibitions, I eagerly paid the £180 fee and submitted my artwork. It wasn't until later, after I had already committed financially, that I stumbled upon online reviews about The...
  • Virginia Damptsa
    yes, i was thinking the same thing, its suspicious......
  • Galería Azur Madrid: vanity gallery
    Yes, also Berlin and New York at least. Check the other thread: https://howsmydealing.com/2022/08/08/galeria-azur-madrid/...
  • Virginia Damptsa
    So many positive comments at the same time is a bit suspicious, don't you think? 6 positive comments in 4 days. The question arises as to how all these artists found their way here at the same time and why no one is sharing their name and website or social media account, meaning why aren't they sharing their positive experience in public with their face. Show me who you are, so I know you actually exist....
  • Virginia Damptsa
    Being an artist, it's really hard for me to create my own network and community. since I teamed up with Virginia, I've been amazed by her connections and how she's been able to hook me up with opportunities I couldn't have found on my own. There are only a few folks in the art scene who actually look out for artists like she does. Oh, and here's another thing: I used to struggle with galleries...
  • Virginia Damptsa
    I’ve worked with Virginia for a while now, I find her honest, charming and helpful. I sent a positive comment for your site last year and you didn’t put it up. I don’t think your feedback for Virginia is representative of her professional attributes at all as she is a total professional and has helped me tremendously in the business side of my practice....
  • Virginia Damptsa
    Yeah, she can be a bit pushy, but honestly, that's what makes her so good at her job. She never gave up in finding the perfect partnerships for me. And you know what? She didn't waste any time paying me either. As soon as she got paid from her collector after making a sale, she made sure I got my money on the very same day. No waiting around or hesitations....
  • Virginia Damptsa
    Virginia has great passion about art and always does her best for her job as an art dealer and gallerist. She helps and supports artists, giving them good advice. As an artist, i love cooperating with her....
  • Holy Art Gallery?
    We should keep this thread alive, so people can see before falling into this trap. They don't give a damn of our arts. All they wanted is making money from emerging artists. Shame on such behaviour and business model. No moral!...
  • PAKS Gallery and MAMAG Museum invite to exhibit at Cannes Film Festival, Art Basel Week and Carrousel du Louvre
    I have been Googling him also after receiving an email...check this out...https://www.artavita.com/artists/12826-milo - look at the description below the first painting - it explains how Heinz kept 3 of his paintings......
  • Virginia Damptsa
    Virginia is a lovely person and a great supporter of artists. I have worked with her several times and found her very honest and with a commitment to represent the artist as best as possible, with the artists interest at the soul of what she does. She is extremely well intentioned with a commitment to make really great art happen and to establish really great connections between artists, institutions and private galleries and agencies. I...
ADC – Art Comes Alive Competition

My art came back from this show destroyed. Their framer wrapped it for shipping and either it was damaged in their gallery or during shipping. Either way – that’s on them. They’ve washed their hands of it. Very unprofessional.

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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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