The Hewitt Galley of Art
Department of Art & Art History
Marymount College Manhattan
221 East 71st Street
New York, NY 10021
(212) 517-0400
http://www.mmm.edu/departments/art/the-hewitt-gallery-of-art.php
Admission: Free
Hours: Open when the building is open
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The entrance to Marymount College’s Carson Hall where the gallery is located.
I came across The Hewitt Gallery of Art when I was exploring the Upper East Side for my project, ‘MywalkinManhattan.com’ and found myself walking into the Department of Art & Art History on the Marymount Manhattan College campus.
The Hewitt Gallery on the Marymount Campus
The Hewitt Art Gallery:
The Hewitt Gallery of Art
In conjunction with the exhibitions, gallery receptions give students the opportunity to engage with professional artists, critics, collectors and curators. Many of the exhibiting artists are also guest presenters in our Art and Art History classes.
This small but unique gallery was showing the Senior Class’s Thesis Show where several members of the Senior Class were showing their final projects in the three hallways of the gallery. The students did a good job mounting their works and each was different in their own way, some pictures, some video, some painting. You got to walk through the first floor to admire the work and the best part was that the gallery was free.
The main gallery on the first floor
The student artwork in the back gallery
The Hewitt Gallery of Art, comprised of the Esplanade and the adjacent Black and White Galleries in Nugent Hall and Carson Hall, offers the Marymount Manhattan community exposure to professional artists and to the larger art world.
The Gallery is known in the New York art community as an alternative exhibition space showcasing contemporary art of emerging and mid-career artists. Innovative and challenging works of art reflecting a wide range of concerns and styles are presented in changing thematic exhibitions. Recent professional exhibitions have been ‘Altered States’, ‘Art & Politics: See it Now!’, ‘The Selfie & Others’, ‘Self-similarity in Math’, Nature and Art’ and ‘The Mind’s Eye: Sight & Insight’. The current exhibition that I visited in 2025 was “Echoing Identities” Light & Form”.
The Black and White Galleries
The Echoing Identities: Light & Sound exhibition
When I visited the Gallery in 2025, the Graduate students were exhibiting their Senior project and the show was entitled ‘Echoing Identities: Light & Form’. Each student explored their work with their own original pieces.
The entrance of the Gallery to the ‘Echoing Identities
The exhibition had many different mediums from cloth and textiles to sculpture and print. There was also a mixture of video and printed media.
The Mexican inspired works
The sign for Gray Laxton’s work
The works by artist Gray Laxton
The sign for artist Alyssa Rodriguez
The piece by artist Alyssa Rodriguez
The sign for Alice Linkh’s work and my favorite in the show ‘Alice and Compony’ based on a story that she created and a book her grandmother created for her based on the story she told her after a dream she had. I loved both the book and the art that was related to it.
The original artwork for ‘Alice and Company’:
The book Alice Linkh’s grandmother created
The book and artwork for ‘Alice and Company
I thought it was a cute story of a little girl who worked with animals to repair the moon when it was damaged. I thought it was a clever children’s dream that made an interesting story.
The room off to the side of the Gallery, the Black and White Gallery offers more contemporary works of the students.
The Black and White Gallery
The works of some of the graduating students
The sign for ‘Finding the Sun’ by artist Ethan Foley
The work ‘Finding the Sun’
One of the clothing art sculpture
The students did a great job on their final projects. Each student gave their perspective in a very original way.
History of the Museum:
The Hewitt Gallery of Art is a laboratory for and an extension of the pedagogy of the Art Department programs.
The Hewitt Gallery provides opportunities for art majors to gain first-hand experience in exhibiting their Senior Thesis projects, as well as having solo exhibitions in their spring semester. Juniors also exhibit in an annual group exhibition and students are able to curate and organize shows in conjunction with their mentors and the Gallery Director.
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Try to visit the gallery when it is open during college school hours. It is worth the trip.
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