Grey Cube Gallery proudly presents the first City online art show for the month of August 2020. The show encompassed a range of artistic styles and mediums (photography, digital, mixed media, collage, oil on canvas, acrylics, watercolor, pastel concrete , recycled wood, etching and gouache). Each submission has been judged based on the following elements of artistic expression: orginality and quality of art, overall design, creativity, interpretation of the theme, demonstration of artistic ability and usage of medium. Out of all entries, 111 artworks were shortlisted for inclusion in the show. The competition attracted entries from many countries across the world: USA, Brazil, Uruguay, Canada, Japan, Italy, Spain, Georgia, Australia, Malaysia, South Korea, Poland, Austria, Israel, Russia, Germany, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Enjoy the show and thank you for expressing an interest in our competition.

Carol Staub is a native of Milford, Delaware where she was raised with five siblings and learned early to enjoy the simple things in life. Following high school, Carol began a career with Delta Airlines that spanned 26 years. Retirement gave her the opportunity to explore the world of art beginning with silversmithing. Within a year, Carol was winning awards for her unique jewelry pieces. With a friend’s coaxing, Carol next entered the world of watercolor garnering hundreds of awards nationally and internationally. Since she began painting in 2001, this self-taught artist has been featured in many media, including The Artist’s Magazine, Watercolor Magic Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, New Art International, American Art Collector, The Best of America Mixed Media Artists and Artisans, Masters of Today, Trends, Incite, International Contemporary Artists, The Artistic Touch, and American Art Collector. Carol is a Signature Member of numerous art organizations including: The American Watercolor Society, International Society of Acrylic Painters, International Society of Experimental Artists, San Diego Watercolor Society, Boca Raton Museum of Art Artists Guild, Allied Artists of America, The Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, The Florida Watercolor Society, National Collage Society, National Association of Women Artists, Philadelphia Watercolor Society, Texas Watercolor Society, Women In The Visual Arts, Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, Southern Watercolor Society, Watercolor Art Society of Houston, and Watercolor Society of Alabama. Many of Carol’s works are included in private collections and can be viewed in museums and galleries throughout the United States and internationally. In 2014, she received an Award of Excellence in the Shenzhen Watercolor Biennial - China. Her painting was purchased by the museum for its permanent collection.Her biography appears in Who’s Who In America, Who’s Who In American Art, Who's Who In the World, Who's Who In American Women, and the Cambridge Who’s Who. Carol’s work currently is represented by the Wit Gallery in Lenox MA, Gallery 14 in Vero Beach, Fl, Gallery 37 in Milford DE, The Boca Raton Museum of Art Artist’s Guild in Boca Raton FL, and Artblend Gallery in Fort Lauderdale Fl.

Fabio Tasso does Sculpture using self-made machinery built with low-cost components. The common point between them is the use of air, blown or sucked. The air, modelling a membrane, makes it lay down on multiple objects, wrapping them: when packaged, those become a single body. Producing like an industry, this machinery leaves sculptures in the world as “residues”. Even if the necessity that led to the creation of this system is unique, what the sculptor does could be done by anyone: the artist moves away from the ideas of “hand” and emotions in the creation of the artwork. The artist is inspired by the prehistoric sculptures that, often remaining incomprehensible to us due to the cultural and temporal distance, appears only as perfect shapes, made with the material, technology and sensibility of the time. Who was the prehistoric sculptor is not important. This is what the artist tries to do: anonymous but universal sculptures, made with the materials of today, that study the space, the shape and the relationship that our body has with these. For this reason, his works have no titles, but only cataloguing codes with all the information on the sculpture hidden. Without him, the only holder of the keys to read them, to codify them, it will be necessary to look for and hypothesize, as in a process of archaeological investigation.

Urban scenes have attracted Carol’s artistic focus lately, especially those acenes that should be bustling but now are quiet. Carol’s urban landscapes are as much about living in the city as they are urban landscapes even though they are devoid of people. She paints the dramatic shadows, the edges of buildings against the sky and the dance of light and shadow in the urban environment. She is particularly interested in the details that are often overlooked in our everyday lives.

Sculptures of the series City's Metamorphosis leave the impression of artistically alienated architecture models, addressing critically the rather hostile design of traditional megalopolises. Step-by-step a transformation is performed, from functionalist sculptures related to the Bauhaus-style into postmodern one (e.g. Manhattan V) or into more playful deconstructive city-layouts (e.g. Manhattan VI), giving rise to hope of more aesthetic cities, if city planners are willing to learn from art. Ulf König lives in the City of Ulm, south of Germany. Since 2004 he works as a self-educated freelance artist and designer. He has participated in around 50 solo- and group-exhibitions in Europe, Canada, USA, received 5 honors and awards, and has published in 6 art-magazines.