Our studio grew out of fine women arts and women 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 arts and william dekooning from 1948 through 1950. ary had worked and exhibited as a painter in france fine women arts for many years. after the sudden death of ary marbain in 1963, the studio was closed for a year. sheila women 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 arts printing three dimensional objects. a plexiglass fine airship for lichtenstein, an oldenburg soft drum set, a set of dominoes with fahlstrom, and a large fabric banner with marisol were women some of the editions.

do not store or display works of art in areas of potentially high humidity or water leakage, arts e.g. basement, bathroom, outside walls, under pipes. avoid areas where temperature and humidity fine fluctuate, or where there is inadequate air circulation, e.g. attic and places listed above. do not hang artworks over or under radiators, heating and cooling vents, active fireplaces, humidifiers, and vaporizersa. the hygroscopic nature of wood means that it will take water from the atmosphere and expand, but it will contract as the humidity lessens. the direction of shrinkage is almost always around the circumference, which causes a solid piece of wood to crack vertically. women keeping it in a steady relative humidity can stabilize the sculpture; arts if the wood does not absorb or release moisture, it will no longer expand or contract.