The Cat Street Gallery is delighted to announce the first solo show in Asia by American artist Rachel Hovnanian. Her latest exhibition, entitled Too Good to Be True, presents a kind of "pilgrim's progress" in which Hovnanian's iconic Beauty Queen Totem makes her way in the world, moving from one stage of beauty-based thralldom to another. As both a pop-culture embodiment of idea beauty and a prize for achieving it, we see the Beauty Queen disciplining herself to endure the privations of beauty like an athlete in training; on the career track, facing a different kind of competition than on the runway; and at home, ambushed by the realities of marriage and domesticity.

Rachel Hovnanian has a BFA from the University of Texas and worked post-grad at the Paarsons School of Design. Rachel has had extensive exhibitions in both America and Europe. She now lives and works in New York.