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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 artists life drawing 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 drawing 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, artists life drawing an oldenburg soft drawing drum life set, a set of dominoes with fahlstrom, and a large fabric banner with marisol were some of the editions.

on view throughout the museum are an especially varied range of objects, images, and room-sized installations, including masterworks by some of the most influential artists of the past forty years, along with an impressive number drawing of recently acquired works by emerging artists. open ends life includes eleven distinct exhibitions and ten large-scale works and installations that examine key themes and lines of affinity that define contemporary art and artists. the exhibition opens in three stages. architecture hot and cold presents a wide range of images of architecture principally drawn from the museum’s collections of photographs and architectural drawings. the exhibition includes works by architects including archigram and rem koolhaas are shown alongside the photography of andreas gursky and robert adams, for example, as well as works in different media by artists such as gordon matta-clark, drawing andy warhol, and joel shapiro.