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Eileen Havant Townsend at Tops Gallery, Memphis
“The Mystery of Cave Island”
April 25 – June 20, 2026
Photos: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Tops Gallery
@tops_gallery @boring_dream_journal

Eileen Havant Townsend at Tops Gallery, Memphis
“The Mystery of Cave Island”
April 25 – June 20, 2026
Photos: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Tops Gallery
@tops_gallery @boring_dream_journal

Eileen Havant Townsend at Tops Gallery, Memphis
“The Mystery of Cave Island”
April 25 – June 20, 2026
Photos: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Tops Gallery
@tops_gallery @boring_dream_journal

Eileen Havant Townsend at Tops Gallery, Memphis
“The Mystery of Cave Island”
April 25 – June 20, 2026
Photos: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Tops Gallery
@tops_gallery @boring_dream_journal

Eileen Havant Townsend at Tops Gallery, Memphis
“The Mystery of Cave Island”
April 25 – June 20, 2026
Photos: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Tops Gallery
@tops_gallery @boring_dream_journal

Eileen Havant Townsend at Tops Gallery, Memphis
“The Mystery of Cave Island”
April 25 – June 20, 2026
Photos: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Tops Gallery
@tops_gallery @boring_dream_journal

Tops is open tomorrow from 12-4pm

Eileen Havant Townsend, The Mystery of Cave Island

Come see the first solo exhibition of this Los Angeles based Memphian, comprised eight dioramas of rocky landscapes alongside eight graphite drawings.
Pictured:

Suspended Grotto (Alhambra Plaza), Plaster, Photograph, resin, acrylic paint, grout, spackle, PVA, modeling
foam, faux grass on wood panel, 30 x 24 inches

Suspended Grotto (South Bay), Plaster, photograph, resin, acrylic paint, grout, spackle, PVA, modeling foam, faux grass on wood panel, 30 x 24 inches

Suspended Grotto (City Terrace), 2026. Plaster, Photograph, resin, acrylic paint, grout, spackle, PVA, modeling foam, faux grass on wood panel, 30 x 24 inches

Suspended Grotto (Volney Drive), 2026. Plaster, Photograph, resin, acrylic paint, grout, spackle, PVA, modeling foam, faux grass on wood panel, 30 x 24 inches

#eileenhavanttownsend #themysteryofcaveisland #topsgallery

The gallery is open Saturday 12-4pm

EileenHavant Townsend, The Mystery of Cave Island

Come see this excellent show in which the artist imagines new passages from the sprawl of Los Angeles’s dusty valley into the surrounding San Gabriel chaparral and back again.

Pictured:

Helen Drive Diorama, 2026.
Graphite on paper in artist-made ash frame,
35.5 x 28 inches

#eileenhavanttownsend #themysteryofcaveisland #topsgallery

The gallery is open tomorrow from 12-4pm

Come see Eileen Havant Townsend’s
The Mystery of Cave Island in which she imagines new passages from the sprawl of Los Angeles’s dusty valley into the surrounding San Gabriel chaparral and back again.

April 25th – June 20th 2026

#eileenhavanttownsend #themysteryofcaveisland #topsgallery

The gallery is open tomorrow from 1-5pm

Eileen Havant Townsend, The Mystery of Cave Island

Come see!

Pictured:

Grotto (LakeForest), 2026.
Plaster, photograph, resin, acrylic paint, grout, spackle, PVA, modeling foam, faux grass,
11 x 12 x 11 inches

#eileenhavanttownsend #themysteryofcaveisland #topsgallery

Eileen Havant Townsend’s show The Mystery of Cave Island opens tomorrow night from 5-7:30pm !!!

#eileenhavanttownsend #themysteryofcaveisland #topsgallery

Tops is excited to present Eileen Havant Townsend’s solo exhibition The Mystery of Cave Island, opening on Saturday April 25th from 5-7:30pm

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.

Pictured:

Suspended Grotto (South Bay, 2026.
Plaster, photograph, resin, acrylic paint, grout, spackle, PVA, modeling foam, faux grass on wood panel,
24 x 20.5 inches

#eileenhavanttownsend #themyssteryofcaveisland #topsgallery

From that which is below

ANNA GREGORCHRIS PECKHAMBOBBY SMITH

Curated by Maria Owen

Today is the last day of this excellent show! Tops is open today from 12-4pm come see!

#annagregor #chrispeckham #bobbysmith #mariaowen #topsgallery

This is the last weekend for From that which is below

A big thanks to @mariaeliowen for making an excellent show!

And to the artists: @anna_t_gregor @cincinnati.gulag and @thatkidbobby

The gallery will be open tomorrow from 12-4pm

And the part of the show at Madison Avenue Park is on view 24/7

Pictured:

Bobby Smith
Shelter Moon, 2023.
Wood, dirt, nails, doll shoes, root nest, rocks, steel, paint, 38 x 66 x 76 inches

Chris Peckham
Snowflakes and Skeleton, 2025.
Colored pencil on paper board, 7 ½ x 10 1/2 inches, 14 ¾ x 17 ¼ inches (framed)

Anna Gregor
After Berlinghiero I, 2025.
RSG Gesso, 18K gold, egg tempera oil paint, on muslin on panel, 31 5/8 x 21 1/8 inches

#annagregor #chrispeckham #bobbysmith #topsgallery

This is the last weekend for From that which is below

A big thanks to @mariaeliowen for making an excellent show!

And to the artists: @anna_t_gregor @cincinnati.gulag and @thatkidbobby

The gallery will be open tomorrow from 12-4pm

And the part of the show at Madison Avenue Park is on view 24/7

Pictured:

Bobby Smith
Shelter Moon, 2023.
Wood, dirt, nails, doll shoes, root nest, rocks, steel, paint, 38 x 66 x 76 inches

Chris Peckham
Snowflakes and Skeleton, 2025.
Colored pencil on paper board, 7 ½ x 10 1/2 inches, 14 ¾ x 17 ¼ inches (framed)

Anna Gregor
After Berlinghiero I, 2025.
RSG Gesso, 18K gold, egg tempera oil paint, on muslin on panel, 31 5/8 x 21 1/8 inches

#annagregor #chrispeckham #bobbysmith #topsgallery

This is the last weekend for From that which is below

A big thanks to @mariaeliowen for making an excellent show!

And to the artists: @anna_t_gregor @cincinnati.gulag and @thatkidbobby

The gallery will be open tomorrow from 12-4pm

And the part of the show at Madison Avenue Park is on view 24/7

Pictured:

Bobby Smith
Shelter Moon, 2023.
Wood, dirt, nails, doll shoes, root nest, rocks, steel, paint, 38 x 66 x 76 inches

Chris Peckham
Snowflakes and Skeleton, 2025.
Colored pencil on paper board, 7 ½ x 10 1/2 inches, 14 ¾ x 17 ¼ inches (framed)

Anna Gregor
After Berlinghiero I, 2025.
RSG Gesso, 18K gold, egg tempera oil paint, on muslin on panel, 31 5/8 x 21 1/8 inches

#annagregor #chrispeckham #bobbysmith #topsgallery

This is the last weekend for From that which is below

A big thanks to @mariaeliowen for making an excellent show!

And to the artists: @anna_t_gregor @cincinnati.gulag and @thatkidbobby

The gallery will be open tomorrow from 12-4pm

And the part of the show at Madison Avenue Park is on view 24/7

Pictured:

Bobby Smith
Shelter Moon, 2023.
Wood, dirt, nails, doll shoes, root nest, rocks, steel, paint, 38 x 66 x 76 inches

Chris Peckham
Snowflakes and Skeleton, 2025.
Colored pencil on paper board, 7 ½ x 10 1/2 inches, 14 ¾ x 17 ¼ inches (framed)

Anna Gregor
After Berlinghiero I, 2025.
RSG Gesso, 18K gold, egg tempera oil paint, on muslin on panel, 31 5/8 x 21 1/8 inches

#annagregor #chrispeckham #bobbysmith #topsgallery

Kevin Ford has been as big of a part of Tops Gallery as any artist over the past decade. He has had four solo exhibitions at the gallery and he curated the massive group exhibition Metafiguration along with Sean McElroy, whose essay appears in this book. Kevin has had memorable presentations with Tops at art fairs in Miami and Dallas and he has contributed to the gallery in enumerable ways large and small. This book is a must have for any fan of Kevin Ford’s art!

HERE surveys a decade of Kevin Ford’s work with wit, curiosity, and a deep attentiveness to how paintings come into being. The book traces a practice rooted in looking—at objects, bodies, landscapes, and the everyday materials that quietly shape our lives. Through painting, familiar subjects are used to explore larger questions about memory, desire, and the unstable space between abstraction and representation.

HERE is also a record of community and creative resilience. It documents exhibitions and collaborations that emphasize conversation and shared experience. HERE presents art as a social act sustained by friendships, shaped by place, and animated by the idea that humor, generosity, and curiosity are essential tools for making sense of the world.

In addition to photographs of Ford’s work, studio practice, and curatorial projects, HERE features essays by Matthew Griffin, Sean McElroy, Matt Ducklo, and Kevin Ford. Published in 2025 with the support of TOPS gallery, MARCH, and 12.26.

Designed by Studio Bueno, printed in Canada. 8 x 6 inches, 240 pages.

HERE is available for purchase on the Tops Gallery website store

@kevinfordpainter
#kevinford #12.26 #marchgallery #topsgallery

Kevin Ford has been as big of a part of Tops Gallery as any artist over the past decade. He has had four solo exhibitions at the gallery and he curated the massive group exhibition Metafiguration along with Sean McElroy, whose essay appears in this book. Kevin has had memorable presentations with Tops at art fairs in Miami and Dallas and he has contributed to the gallery in enumerable ways large and small. This book is a must have for any fan of Kevin Ford’s art!

HERE surveys a decade of Kevin Ford’s work with wit, curiosity, and a deep attentiveness to how paintings come into being. The book traces a practice rooted in looking—at objects, bodies, landscapes, and the everyday materials that quietly shape our lives. Through painting, familiar subjects are used to explore larger questions about memory, desire, and the unstable space between abstraction and representation.

HERE is also a record of community and creative resilience. It documents exhibitions and collaborations that emphasize conversation and shared experience. HERE presents art as a social act sustained by friendships, shaped by place, and animated by the idea that humor, generosity, and curiosity are essential tools for making sense of the world.

In addition to photographs of Ford’s work, studio practice, and curatorial projects, HERE features essays by Matthew Griffin, Sean McElroy, Matt Ducklo, and Kevin Ford. Published in 2025 with the support of TOPS gallery, MARCH, and 12.26.

Designed by Studio Bueno, printed in Canada. 8 x 6 inches, 240 pages.

HERE is available for purchase on the Tops Gallery website store

@kevinfordpainter
#kevinford #12.26 #marchgallery #topsgallery

Kevin Ford has been as big of a part of Tops Gallery as any artist over the past decade. He has had four solo exhibitions at the gallery and he curated the massive group exhibition Metafiguration along with Sean McElroy, whose essay appears in this book. Kevin has had memorable presentations with Tops at art fairs in Miami and Dallas and he has contributed to the gallery in enumerable ways large and small. This book is a must have for any fan of Kevin Ford’s art!

HERE surveys a decade of Kevin Ford’s work with wit, curiosity, and a deep attentiveness to how paintings come into being. The book traces a practice rooted in looking—at objects, bodies, landscapes, and the everyday materials that quietly shape our lives. Through painting, familiar subjects are used to explore larger questions about memory, desire, and the unstable space between abstraction and representation.

HERE is also a record of community and creative resilience. It documents exhibitions and collaborations that emphasize conversation and shared experience. HERE presents art as a social act sustained by friendships, shaped by place, and animated by the idea that humor, generosity, and curiosity are essential tools for making sense of the world.

In addition to photographs of Ford’s work, studio practice, and curatorial projects, HERE features essays by Matthew Griffin, Sean McElroy, Matt Ducklo, and Kevin Ford. Published in 2025 with the support of TOPS gallery, MARCH, and 12.26.

Designed by Studio Bueno, printed in Canada. 8 x 6 inches, 240 pages.

HERE is available for purchase on the Tops Gallery website store

@kevinfordpainter
#kevinford #12.26 #marchgallery #topsgallery

Kevin Ford has been as big of a part of Tops Gallery as any artist over the past decade. He has had four solo exhibitions at the gallery and he curated the massive group exhibition Metafiguration along with Sean McElroy, whose essay appears in this book. Kevin has had memorable presentations with Tops at art fairs in Miami and Dallas and he has contributed to the gallery in enumerable ways large and small. This book is a must have for any fan of Kevin Ford’s art!

HERE surveys a decade of Kevin Ford’s work with wit, curiosity, and a deep attentiveness to how paintings come into being. The book traces a practice rooted in looking—at objects, bodies, landscapes, and the everyday materials that quietly shape our lives. Through painting, familiar subjects are used to explore larger questions about memory, desire, and the unstable space between abstraction and representation.

HERE is also a record of community and creative resilience. It documents exhibitions and collaborations that emphasize conversation and shared experience. HERE presents art as a social act sustained by friendships, shaped by place, and animated by the idea that humor, generosity, and curiosity are essential tools for making sense of the world.

In addition to photographs of Ford’s work, studio practice, and curatorial projects, HERE features essays by Matthew Griffin, Sean McElroy, Matt Ducklo, and Kevin Ford. Published in 2025 with the support of TOPS gallery, MARCH, and 12.26.

Designed by Studio Bueno, printed in Canada. 8 x 6 inches, 240 pages.

HERE is available for purchase on the Tops Gallery website store

@kevinfordpainter
#kevinford #12.26 #marchgallery #topsgallery

Kevin Ford has been as big of a part of Tops Gallery as any artist over the past decade. He has had four solo exhibitions at the gallery and he curated the massive group exhibition Metafiguration along with Sean McElroy, whose essay appears in this book. Kevin has had memorable presentations with Tops at art fairs in Miami and Dallas and he has contributed to the gallery in enumerable ways large and small. This book is a must have for any fan of Kevin Ford’s art!

HERE surveys a decade of Kevin Ford’s work with wit, curiosity, and a deep attentiveness to how paintings come into being. The book traces a practice rooted in looking—at objects, bodies, landscapes, and the everyday materials that quietly shape our lives. Through painting, familiar subjects are used to explore larger questions about memory, desire, and the unstable space between abstraction and representation.

HERE is also a record of community and creative resilience. It documents exhibitions and collaborations that emphasize conversation and shared experience. HERE presents art as a social act sustained by friendships, shaped by place, and animated by the idea that humor, generosity, and curiosity are essential tools for making sense of the world.

In addition to photographs of Ford’s work, studio practice, and curatorial projects, HERE features essays by Matthew Griffin, Sean McElroy, Matt Ducklo, and Kevin Ford. Published in 2025 with the support of TOPS gallery, MARCH, and 12.26.

Designed by Studio Bueno, printed in Canada. 8 x 6 inches, 240 pages.

HERE is available for purchase on the Tops Gallery website store

@kevinfordpainter
#kevinford #12.26 #marchgallery #topsgallery

This is the penultimate weekend to see From that which is below. Tops has open hours today from 12-4pm. Please come by to see this evocative show!

Pictured:

Anna Gregor
The Studio, 2025.
RSG gesso, egg tempera, shellac, oil
paint, on muslin on panel
9 3/4 x 7 5/8 inches

#fromthatwhichisbelow #annagregor #chrispeckham #bobbysmith

No hours this Saturday, but there are still a couple of more weeks to see From that which is below, a group show curated by Maria Owen and featuring the work of Anna Gregor, Chris Peckham, and Bobby Smith.

Always open by appointment. Please dm to request

Pictured:

Chris Peckham
Untitled, 2025.
Steel, cut tacks, wood
11 1⁄8 x 13 5⁄8 inches

#fromthayltwhichisbelow #annagregor #chrispeckham #bobbysmith #topsgallery