Our studio grew out of Maurel Press originated in 1955 by artists Sheila and Ary Marbain. It opened as a custom screen printing shop specializing in printing with contemporary artists. Sheila had studied art at Black Mountain College in North Carolina with Joseph Albers, Ilya Bolotowsky and William deKooning from 1948 through 1950. Ary had worked and exhibited as a artwork by famous artist painter in france for many years. after the sudden death of ary marbain in 1963, the studio was closed for a year. sheila then decided to modernize the workshop and introduce screen photography along with a new vacuume printing table. our studio reopened on 23rd street in manhattan. with an assistant, sheila plunged into printing three dimensional artist objects. a plexiglass airship for lichtenstein, an oldenburg soft drum set, a set of dominoes with fahlstrom, and a large fabric banner with marisol were some of the editions.

then lile got an old unix machine together (being a unix systems administrator, this was fairly simple) and registered art.net with the internic. once the domain was created, with the help of friends, she brought up art.net onto the internet. lile started contacting artists about the san francisco bay area who might be interested in showing their works on the internet and helped them come up on art.net. she visited many cafe''s to see the local artists works and enjoy the coffees. when she saw works she liked, she contacted the artists and offered to help them come up on the internet and the www via art.net. many artists took the plunge and are now resident artists here at art.net. artists from around the net started hearing about art on the net or would discover the art.net web site via the www.

on view throughout the museum are an especially varied range of objects, images, and room-sized installations, including masterworks by some of the most influential artists of the past forty years, along with drawings by famous artist an impressive number of recently acquired works by emerging artists. open ends includes eleven distinct exhibitions and ten large-scale works and installations that examine key themes and lines of affinity that define contemporary art and artists. the exhibition opens in three stages. architecture hot and cold presents a wide range of images of architecture principally drawn from the museum’s collections of photographs and architectural drawings. the exhibition includes works by architects including archigram and rem koolhaas are shown alongside the photography of andreas gursky and robert adams, for example, as well as works in different artist media by artists such famous artist as gordon matta-clark, andy warhol, and joel shapiro artist.