Image: Print Center New York
‘Nets’ is a solo presentation of recent works by Brooklyn-based artist Mira Dayal, running from September 17 through November 21, 2026. The presentation was organized in dialogue with ‘Parasol Press: Breaking New Ground.’
Made during residencies and workshops, Dayal’s new work adapts her plasma-cut steel ‘net’ sculptures as printmaking plates. These works further the possibilities of printing without ink while exploring the dimensional properties and allusive potential of unlikely materials. Dayal often records the objects’ impressions using black chalk, or simply allows the pressure of the press to create embossments on paper.
The resulting imagery recalls textile patterns, mathematical nets, spiderwebs, map grids, and expanded steel sheets. Primarily known for her ‘sculptural systems,’ Dayal works with materials including steel, chalk, and graphite. She uses physical forces such as tension, gravity, friction, wind, and heat, producing minimalist forms that evoke larger organizational structures from cartography, mathematics, and language.
Mira Dayal is an artist, writer, and editor based in Brooklyn. She produces sculptures, drawings, installations, books, and interdisciplinary works that create and iterate larger systems of meaning.
Dayal’s current body of work is a series of ‘language objects’: sculptures in steel and other materials that replicate and abstract tools and materials associated with the production of language and narrative.
