I’m an artist and art writer living in Los Angeles.

I make paintings and videos about dead French men; horror vacui watercolors, drawings of LA and the San Gabriel Mountains, and zines about crowds, public transit, the beginning of the world, and flowers.

I’ve written about arts and culture for The Paris Review, Artnet, The Brooklyn Rail, The New York Times, The Cut, Vogue, and The Village Voice, among other publications. From 2024 - 2025, I was the senior editor at Artillery magazine, an independent Los Angeles art journal. 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.

But all I really care about is my poetry, which has appeared in Meetinghouse magazine and Girl Blood Info.

Recent Essays & Reviews

• The Freakiest Outfits We Saw at Frieze Art Fair // Freak Palace

• Mountain as Method: Inside LA’s Most Mysterious Anti-Institution // Artillery Magazine

• In Search of a City Nov/Dec // Artillery Magazine

• Furry Artists Will Remake The World // Artillery Magazine

• Juliana Halpert and Chris Kraus at Bel Ami // Artillery Magazine

• In Search of a City Sept/Oct // Artillery Magazine

• Viola Frey at The Pit // Artillery Magazine

• Jon Rafman at Spruth Magers // Artillery Magazine

• Matthew Lax at Human Resources // Artillery Magazine

• Future Nostalgia: On Zak Smith // Drown In It (monograph)

• Nate Lowman at David Zwirner // Artillery Magazine

• My Breast Reduction, Myself // Freak Palace

Get in touch: eileentown @ gmail dot com