Our studio grew out of Maurel Press school 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 painter in France for many years. After the sudden death of Ary Marbain wildlife clip art and art in 1963, the studio was closed for a year. sheila then decided to modernize the workshop and school introduce screen photography along with a new vacuume printing table. our studio reopened on 23rd street in manhattan. with an assistant, anniversary clip art sheila plunged into printing three dimensional objects. a plexiglass art airship for lichtenstein, school an oldenburg soft drum set, a set anniversary clip art of dominoes with fahlstrom, and a large fabric banner with marisol were some of art the editions.

then school and clip lile got an art 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 school 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 clip 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 art 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.