Eileen Havant Townsend
The Mystery of Cave Island
April 25th – June 20th 2026
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 The Mystery of Cave Island, Townsend imagines new passages from the sprawl of Los Angeles’s dusty valley into the surrounding San Gabriel chaparral and back again.
Margaret Coleman
Nurses and Doctors
June 2nd – September 2nd 2026
Margaret Coleman made these drawing of Memphis healthcare workers in the late 1990's. Coleman is a self taught artist whose drawings and paintings are inspired by her life experience and surroundings. She has produced distinct bodies of work depicting religious scenes informed by her faith, portraits of civil rights leaders, and images of local fashion in addition to these portraits of medical professionals that will be displayed in our Madison Avenue Park space for the next three months. These richly colored portraits emphasize the individuality and warmth of those individuals while more broadly representing the brave network of health care workers across the globe who offer hope to us all.Tops has previously exhibited Colemans's work in the group show Tree of Life in 2019 and at the Outsider Art Fair in 2020.