I’m an artist and art writer living in Los Angeles.
I’m currently the senior editor of Artillery Magazine, LA’s longest-running local art publication. I write a regular column, “In Search of a City”, about the shape of the art scene here, and review exhibitions.
In the past, I’ve written about arts and culture for The New York Times, The Paris Review, Artnet, The Brooklyn Rail, The Cut, Vogue, and The Village Voice, among other publications. From 2017 - 2022, I lived in the Adirondack Mountains, where I edited a trade publication about forestry and logging, The Northern Logger and Timber Processor. From 2013 - 2016, I was a staff writer and art columnist for Memphis Magazine and The Memphis Flyer.
In my own studio, I make paintings and videos about dead French men; horror vacui watercolors; and zines about the beginning of the world, flowers, international transit, and bumming around NYC as a 22-year-old.
But all I really care about is my poetry.
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The best way to reach me is at studio@eileenhavanttownsend.com. Don’t be a stranger!