Innocence and Experience deals principally with the shift in recent decades from a positive, hopeful vision of childhood’s purity and power to a counter-imagery of youth threatened fine arts painting or corrupted. the gallery exhibition includes works by diane arbus, robert gober, mona hatoum, and mike kelley. an accompanying film and video exhibition includes films and videos by stan brakhage, joseph cornell, sadie benning, louis malle, satyajit ray, and arturo ripstein. matter arts investigates the new role of materials in fine arts and design, as well as its force in inspiring and guiding the creative process, by considering and connecting several painting distinct creative fields. works by joseph beuys, robert morris, gaetano pesce, mona hatoum, eva hesse, designers hella jongerius and tom dixon, and photographer vik muniz are shown.

our studio fine grew out of maurel press originated in 1955 by artists arts 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 painting 1950. ary had worked and exhibited as a painter in france for many years. after the sudden fine death of ary marbain in 1963, the studio was closed for a year. sheila arts 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 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 painting.