Mirabo Press is pleased to return to in-person events, beginning with presenting the exhibition New and Improved by Nicholas H. Ruth.

New and Improved presents works on paper exploring our daily interactions with social systems, tangible and intangible. Using billboards, road signs, and communication towers as both direct and metaphorical examples, the work examines attention and semiotics as they pertain to the objects our daily routines put us in contact with. Ruth explores the relationship between the habitual, almost second-nature intake of our surroundings and the ingrained symbolism smattering these objects in our purview.

Ruth reveals the subtleties of the way we ingest the world around us and the sly functionality of infrastructural technology via visual repetition and by coming to the imagery through various processes. Traditional and alternative etching techniques make up some of the prints in the exhibition, a selection of which Nicholas made with the Mirabo printers. Also on view are photogravure prints and a range of mixed process works boasting layered processes of laser and vinyl cutting, pochoir, collaged monotypes, and, of course, some extremely technical drawing.

Join us for an opening reception on Thursday, October 7, 6-9 p.m. To do our best to ensure the safety of our visitors, masks and proof of vaccination are required.