How's My Dealing? 2.0

Dab Art, got accepted but now afraid!

August 6, 2022

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…

anne wolk

By: anonymous

May 26, 2022

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.

Beware of the scam

By: anonymous

May 8, 2022

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.…

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

By: anonymous

April 11, 2022

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…

Dmitry Prut and Avant Gallery are pure trash

By: anonymous

April 11, 2022

They don’t pay their staff, rip off their artists, and flat out lie to potential customers. This “business” would be long gone if it weren’t for family money.

I was also Scammed and Harassed

By: anonymous

April 11, 2022

I was also scammed and harassed by Dab Art Co. We asked the Owner of Dab Art Co. about some specifics after reading the facts here, m and she became enraged, really really angry, and threatened us. Screaming. Beware

colorida galeria de arte Lisbon

By: anonymous

March 18, 2022

don’t get fooled by their apparently professional approach. This is not a professional gallery. They have a very large space and they just make a living out of the various “artists” they show at once. They tell you it’s a solo show but it’s actually a massive group show. No curato, no press release. Even though they only ask for a refund for the show opening’s drinks (and no drinks have been allowed for two years now, yet they still keep asking) just multiply that amount by eight artists exhibiting at once and then by two because shows are on…

World of Art (WOA) Contemporay Art Magazine

By: anonymous

March 16, 2022

Hello, can anyone share experiences with World of Art (WOA) Contemporay Art Magazine? It´s a London based company which is publishing a magazine named “La Biennale di Venezia” (ISSN 1404-3408) with 15.000 copies. Thanks for your replies!

Altamira.art and Joel van Wyk

By: anonymous

March 6, 2022

Does anyone have any experience with Altamira.art? Joel van Wyk is aggressively emailing artists to join. The website is not related to the physician gallery named Altamira Fine Art. It seems really shady that they are using the same name as the physical gallery when they have nothing to do with each other.

Arquetopia Oaxaca

By: anonymous

February 8, 2022

I want to share my resent experience with Arquetopia residency . I came to Arquetopia residency on January 17 and on the second day develop cold like symptoms and was ask to do a Covid test ,which nobody ask me before I arrived as well as my vaccination record.Just for my records I did a test back in US and it was negative .This time in Mexico my test was positive ,which makes me think that I got infected from the residency staff ,but they refuse to give me their records. I was waking up at 11:30 pm to let…

Zürcher Gallery

The gallery owner is not responsible when works they exhibit don’t sell....

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Art.Number23

Hello I had some trouble with Constantine too, I was selected for the next exhibition in Tokyo but I saw all of your messages. Is it possible to speak with some of you that have trouble with this guy ? Maybe by a email address for everyone ? Thanks......

Pashmin Art Gallery – Hamburg

Stay away from this gallery. They`´re a bunch of fraudsters, run by Nour Nouri. They promise you scccess, rip you off and then you never get it. All the exhibitions venues aren`´t recognized in the art world and bring nothing. Quite the opposite: they`´re just a source of stress. Artists who open their mounths there will be sued. If a work of art is ever sold, the artist never gets it. What Nour Nouri is...

Just exhibited at Boomer Gallery and can confirm Constantine is still up to his old tricks. Avoid...

Holy Art Gallery?

Totally agree, they only care about money...

Hello, I have just been selected for the next exhibition in Tokyo in 2026 and I came across this discussion. I found another artist who was also selected and I notified him by sending him this thread. Do you have any news of this Constantine and your works? I am going to Tokyo in January/February 2026, I am thinking that it might be good to go in person to notify the gallery of this type...

Hello I had a mail from this Constantine says that I'm selected for the next show in Tokyo. Imagine, my dream ! I was sooooo exiting but I saw all of your post so I don't know if it's a good idea to send my artistic work for this exhibition. Now I m super sad because I saw that this men is a huge scam. I will go to Tokyo in January and February 2026...

Van Gogh Art Gallery in Madrid

Thanks for sharing your review...

PAKS Gallery, Vienna/other locations

Thank you for the feedback from all the artists. This bullying virtual gallery is too bad. I also received an invitation today....

The Art Letters and Numbers in Averill Park

Can you tell me more about your experience? I am slated for a residency there in July 2025. Thanks!...

Thierry Goldberg Gallery does not pay his MFA artists

Not a new problem I showed with Ron Segev (& Claire Lematais) in 2006 when they opened their first gallery Sixtyseven in NYC. I had a solo in 2006. They sold 1/3 of the work. Reviewed by Ken Johnson in NYT. I never got a penny from the sales. Years of emails, phone calls, frustration. They told me I was ‘investing in the new space’ (Thierry Goldberg). I wish I had been more aggressive frankly. I...

Amsterdam Whitney

Tks! Excellent to know I too got a em requesting I submit my portfolio. And although I have 4)+ years as a pro, I am a newbie to the fine art gallery world....

Parallax Art fair / PAF

No they don't lie because I've taken part many times and visited. You are clearly one of the nasty exhibitors and they are glad you're gone!...

Just finished a residency at Arts, Letters & Numbers and I highly recommend you look elsewhere. The people I met were lovely. Everything else was dirty, unmaintained, broken and unsafe....

Rebecca Hossack Galleries

I know people who showed there. What happened ?...

ITSLIQUID GROUP

They accepted some of my artwork, but I was so unsure about everything because I for some reason can't find any receives....

Flyer art gallery! Scam!

After 2 years I get finally my paintings back from Floriano. It costs me 50€ to send them from Italy to Holland. But I paid because I want my paintings to come home. Finally! Mariken Instagram: Art_by_mariken...

I had exactly the same experience in Tokyo this June, I wish I had seen all your testimonials before. PLEASE keep writing negative reviews on their Google page, I feel terribly sad, humiliated and sorry for the artists that were exhibiting there and couldn't go (and might have never figured out what they were doing)....

Photographers should think twice about entering LensCulture

I submitted to them a few years ago and included two detail shots which are important to see in my work. I clearly labeled both as "Details". Whoever the juror(s) was they never read that or didn't even realize those were details, not the entire piece, and gave me a bad review on those two details. They never said a word about the rest of the series I had entered! Yikes!...

Colorida Gallery

Marcolino, Anne, Dario and Ribeiro are all fake names of Colorida staff. AVOID THIS "GALLERY" AT ALL COSTS - the more we get the word out, the sooner they will close. What a corruptible operation....

That's good to know. However, did the 'exposure' on their various pages where they promote themselves using your work amount to any tangible benefits or recognition anywhere else....

Divulgarti group

That's not how the art world works. Sorry to inform you, but you were scammed. Educate yourself, read the whole thread and some others from these pages....

Superfine Art Fair

I exhibited in Miami a few years ago. Although the guys promote the fair extensively on social media, their business plan is to make money on the exhibitors. Unfortunately they do not have a good ground plan to drive traffic. They also charge admission which is a turn off for many casual attendees. Their email list doesn't reach art collectors....

I did two Superfine fairs, one in DC in 2023 and one in Savannah in 2024. Attendance in DC wasn't bad, In Savannah it was abysmal. Both fairs were fun, and I learned a lot (hadn't done a fair since 1983). However, with sales at the two fairs TOTALING $1600, I was more than $10,000 in the hole. I didn't expect to break even, seeing these fairs as an opportunity to learn, meet people and...

I have exhibited at the galleria Cael. I was cautious at first too because it sounded to good to be true. But I did my research and applied. My artwork was accepted and the exhibit was wonderful and made with lots of care. You could really see that the Gallery put their heart into this exhibit. The Gallery is very much real since I have bin there myself. However exhibiting does cost quite a bit...

Excellance art Gallery in Mirabella, Spain

I was contacted on my page, and after a conversation, I had some doubts about the gallery’s reach. I encourage fellow artists to remain curious but to conduct thorough research, ask specific questions, and seek feedback from others before engaging....

Context art gallery, Venice. AKA Marco Patrizio

He took 3 pieces of my work and I’ve wanted them back for years. He is the worst. He told me I would be in a show in Milan and I flew over for the show. Then he told me there was a bacteria outbreak and my show was cancelled but he would be in Switzerland and I could come to that show there. I did and I met him and he did not have...

Van der Plas Gallery

Do not apply to this gallery. They make a big deal about their New York "exposure" opportunity and I got suckered to pay $150 to display a small drypoint print. After failing to sell, they added insult by losing the return paperwork for the return shipment. They didn't even apologize. I had to pay the shipping company to recreate the paperwork and send it to New York, so the incompetent gallery may ship the print...

Thank you everyone for your sharing. I’ve also received the same email and was doing some research to understand their credibility. Hopefully soon enough they won’t be able to scam anyone because they’ll be too exposed...

How did that go? like i see on instagram that some people have their art there so does he just scam some of us and let other people make money? or how does this work lol...

How's My Dealing? 2.0

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Dab Art, got accepted but now afraid!

anne wolk

Beware of the scam

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

Dmitry Prut and Avant Gallery are pure trash

I was also Scammed and Harassed

colorida galeria de arte Lisbon

World of Art (WOA) Contemporay Art Magazine

Altamira.art and Joel van Wyk

Arquetopia Oaxaca