Eileen Havant Townsend

The Mystery of Cave Island

Opening Saturday April 25th 5:00-7:30 PM

In her first solo exhibition, The Mystery of Cave Island, Los Angeles-based artist Eileen Havant Townsend presents eight dioramas of rocky landscapes alongside eight graphite drawings. Within each diorama, tufts of grass and jagged rocks surround portal-like ponds, with snapshot images held within. The graphite drawings reimagine the sculptures as flat tracery. In Cave Island, Townsend imagines new passages from the sprawl of Los Angeles’s dusty valley into the surrounding San Gabriel chaparral and back again.