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 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.

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.

This is the best site for looking up various art productions and purchasing prints. Navitrolla is young Estonian artist in his twenties to whom painting has become his life''s work. Taking a brief look at his pictures one may wonder if he is a naivist. He isn''t. He doesn''t create art "innocently" as the naivists do, but acts according to a mysterious programme, known maybe to Navitrolla or to no one if he doesn''t. You don''t know what to think of it. Maybe it makes you angry, or maybe it makes you laugh. Now, when you have seen his picture''s maybe you would like to know more about Navitrolla''s life. Please, come into the Navitrolla''s Life to read about it! If You would like to inspect how Navitrolla looks like, come into the Navitrolla''s Photos.

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