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 innovative artist in north carolina with joseph albers, ilya bolotowsky and william dekooning from 1948 through 1950. ary had worked and exhibited as a 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 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.

one thing after another explores the relationship of printmaking to the proliferation of serial imagery in the contemporary period. classic serial print projects from pop art and minimalism artist are juxtaposed with works from 1980s and 1990s. artists included range from andy warhol, innovative roy lichtenstein, artist ellsworth kelly, and brice marden to rosemarie trockel, john armleder, yukinori yanagi, and anish kapoor. pop and after juxtaposes major works of the 1960s by american and european artists, which focus on mass media and the iconography of consumer culture, with innovative works by younger creators of the 1980s and 1990s that extend and twist the stylistic and social concerns of pop art. artists included range from andy warhol, claes oldenburg, and roy lichtenstein to jeff koons, david hammons, and damien hirst.

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 artist 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 innovative 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 artist net started hearing about art on the net or would discover the art.net web site via the www.