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This Must Be the Place presents

Cats Like Us

An exhibition of of new work from Mel Shimkovitz

Cats Like Us is a collection of doo-wop drawings investigating the 1950s era trend of re-branding and marketing masculinity to American suburban males as a means of escapism. In her circuitous meditations, Shimkovitz explores an oft-overlooked subset of the population who likewise employed this constructed bravado in performing their own fantasies of power, virility and coolness: Macho Cats.

An avid computer coder as well as drawer, Shimkovitz employs her method of Mental Faxing – which she describes as “an ASCII of the mind” – to reveal the unmapped architectural language of everything.

Cats Like Us is presented by This Must Be the Place, located at 81 Broadway, Third Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11211.  The exhibition runs from March 2nd through March 30th, 2012.

Opening reception is on Friday, March 2nd at 7pm.

Gallery hours are Saturdays, Mondays and Wednesdays from 1-5pm and by appointment.  Please email info@thismustbetheplace.org for more  information.

Tom Cat of Finland, 2011, ink on paper, 24 x 22 inches

Cat Garrett & Billy the Kitten, 2012, ink on paper, 24 x 22 inches

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“PRODUCTIVE STEPS” Group Exhibition Curated by Lucas Blalock and Sam Falls
Mt. Tremper Arts, New York
July 9 – August 21

Featuring works by Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Nicholas Buffon, Dynasty Handbag, Jason Fulford, John Houck, James Hyde, Zak Kitnick, Dani Levinthal, Andrea Longacre-White, Adam Marnie, Grayson Revoir, Jory Rabinovitz, David Scanavino, Asha Schechter, David Benjamin Sherry, Mel Shimkovitz, Jill Sylvia, Daniel Turner, Nick Van Woert, and Joe Zorrilla.
Productive Steps brings together artworks that highlight their own production, and, in so doing, engage the viewer in the performance of making itself. Through a diverse set of strategies, the works enable us to see both the finished pieces and their evidenced history. Retracing the steps of their construction, we are drawn to examine our own relationship to these works, as well as those of the artists to their materials and making processes.

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“VAYA CON DIOS… MAĂ‘ANA” Solo Exhibition
SĂ©asame, Paris
Opening May 3, 2011

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“LA MIGRA” Group Show curated by Devendra Banhart
Vice Gallery, Mexico
February 21, 2011

Devendra Banhart
Keegan McHargue
Adam Tullie
Angelina Rivas
Thomas Campbell
Alia Shawkat
David Tibet
Adam Green
Kevin Long
Macho Mel Shimkovitz
Jerry Hsu
Eric Warenheim
Zach Hill
Marc Bell
Marilyn Manson
Fabrizio Moretti
Kori Girard
Thomas Campbell
Travis Keller
James Franco
Beck

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“The Show Must Go On” Group Show
Capricious Space, New York
February, 2011

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