Howard House shows a new collection of drawings (and notably, one sculpture) by Victoria Haven. Her works on paper read like a set of 3-D architectural drawings in shorthand, or maybe renderings of our nation crisscrossed by railroad routes. Dashed lines and hard angles seem both abstract and clean distillations of fact: a mapping of the shortest routes between here and there. The drawings Untitled (Blue) and Strobe both read like rough, angular maps of the Lower 48, inked with colorful dashed markings that could delineate railroad hubs or flight paths, or some sort of traffic. Untitled (Blue) is puckered, with an almost puffy empty space that might be the fat middle of our country. Strobe appears to illustrate another abstract map, with some of its angular quadrangles filled in, some not. Easily the most striking piece is the sculpture, hung high on the wall, a white line of script reading, in a nod to Bruce Nauman, “Are you paying attention?” We have to crane our necks to read the cursive. In this plastic-dipped steel sculpture, the n’s appear a bit squinched, but in the shadow, they are perfectly formed.