Selected Exhibitions

ABSTRACTS REVISITED

Opening Reception, Sunday, November 10, 2024, 2 - 5 pm at The Makery Gallery, 260 South Los Angeles Street, Los Angeles, CA

Abstracts Revisited Solo Exhibit for Lynn Elliott Letterman


THE LOS GATOS TREE PAINTING

Opening Reception, December 6, 3:00-5:00, Iwasawa Oriental Art, 75 Universal Avenue, Los Gatos, CA

The Los Gatos Tree by Lynn Elliott Letterman

A commission artwork by Iwasawa Oriental Art Gallery in Los Gatos. This painting has been accepted at NUMU, New Museum Los Gatos. The Los Gatos Tree painting features 32 illustrations of selected Victorian homes and places of interest from 1854-1982.The Town Plaza Christmas Tree is shown in the background.

For over 20 years I have photographed these wonderful places, and finally decided to make a painting that included buildings still there and many that no longer exist yet have contributed to the history of Los Gatos. The colored renditions of the various buildings with historical or architectural references are placed on a painting of the holiday tree in the Town Plaza Park. This holiday tree is a Deodar Cedar, a gift from the History Club of Los Gatos in 1923.

The Names & Dates of the Victorian Homes and Places of Interest on the Painting:

(1)  FORBES Mill – 1854

(2)  ORIGINAL DEPOT – 1878

(3)  WILDER AVENUE HOUSE – 1861

(4)  LA CANADA BUILDING – 1894

(5)  SPRECKLES HOUSE – 1893

(6)  TAIT HOUSE - 1892

(7)  D.P. SIMONS HOUSE – 1880’s

(8) COGGLESSHALL MANSION – 1891

(9) BEAN AVENUE 212 – 1891

(10) DEXTER PIERCE HOUSE – 1892

(11) WHITNEY HOUSE – 1892

(12) BECKWITH BLOCK – 1893

(13) VILLA TUSCULUM HOUSE – 1894

14) TRAP HOUSE – 1884-85

(15) BECKWITH HOUSE – 1884-85

(16) HARRY PERRIN (THE CASTEL) – 1893-94

(17) FONTAINE HOUSE – 1898

(18) WALNUT AVENUE – 1898

(19) HOTEL LYNDON – 1899

(20) VILLA MONTALVO – 1912-14

(21) LOS GATOS THEATER – 1916

(22) RASMUSSEN / THRASH HOUSE – 1902

(23) LOS GATOS HIGH SCHOOL – Dedicated 1925

(24) THE GABLES – 1918-19

(25) THE CATS, LEO, AND LEONA – 1922

(26) THE OFFICIAL CHRISTMAS TREE – 1923
(with Jazz on The Plazz)

(27) PARK VISTA BANK – 1932

(28) HANSEL & GRETAL COTTAGE – 1947

(29) OLD TOWN – (Established 1882, the current buildings date from 1923)

(30) NUMU, New Museum Los Gatos – 1965

(31) OAK MEADOW PARK – 1968

(32) IWASAWA ORIENTAL ART – 1982


Women Artists on Immigration, Crossing Borders, Confronting Barriers, Bridging Identities.

Exhibition at: Korean Cultural Center Art Gallery

The necessity for sweeping immigration reform is illustrated in Lynn Elliott Letterman's A Two-sided Border Story (2008). Here illegal and legal immigration are shown as branches growing on separate sides of the same tree. The family in Poli Marichal's Vigilia (2008) could well represent the risks of illegal immigration, or the left side of the tree, while Carol Nye's portrait of a successful middleclass woman in From the series "Chinese American Women of Los Angeles": Lilly. L Chen (1996) personifies the positive aspects of immigration.

The history of immigration in the United States has been a rocky road, to say the least, yet it is this history that continues to lure people from all over the world to a country in which miracles are still possible. Where else could Barack Obama, the son of a Kenyan citizen and an American woman, be elected the 44th president of the United States? The immigrant's dream of a better future is alive and well!

Written by Alma Ruiz, Curator, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
December 2008 / Los Angeles, California

Prepared for the Women Artists on Immigration: Crossing Borders, Confronting Barriers, Bridging Identities exhibition catalog. Organized by the Women's Caucus for Art and the Korean Cultural Center of Los Angeles, the exhibition is on view at the Korean Cultural Center Art Gallery from February 20 through March 7, 2009.