Exhibitions

Dr. Jerome Levkov: Scientist and Artist

A Retrospective of Four Decades of Work

August 25 – October 18, 2025

Gallery Event

Closing Reception | Saturday, October 18, Noon to 3 p.m.

Location | Brother Kenneth Chapman Gallery

Iona University is honored to present Dr. Jerome Levkov: Scientist and Artist, a retrospective exhibition celebrating the life and legacy of the late Dr. Jerome Levkov—an esteemed educator, accomplished chemist, and deeply thoughtful visual artist.

Dr. Levkov earned his Ph.D. in chemistry and spent nearly four decades teaching at the collegiate level. Though his early life was rooted in scientific inquiry, his journey into the visual arts began later in life. Inspired by a formative high school visit to MoMA’s renowned The Family of Man photography exhibition, Dr. Levkov’s appreciation for the arts never left him. In his late forties, he began to sketch and paint—initially as a way to manage personal stress—and soon discovered a deep, enduring creative drive.

Working in pastel, pencil, watercolor, and ink, Dr. Levkov developed a practice that was at once observational, expressive, and deeply human. His subjects ranged from sweeping landscapes shaped by years of hiking, to the everyday poetry of New York City’s subways and neighborhoods. A longtime resident of Riverdale, NY, he drew inspiration from nature, community, and the people he encountered in daily life.

In his own words, Dr. Levkov once said, “Doing art has made me a more attentive observer of my environment, of people, nature, and situations. Turning an empty page into a story, feeling, or something interesting is quite satisfying and challenging.”

This retrospective brings together selections from over four decades of creative exploration, offering viewers a window into the rich intersection of science and art, observation and expression, intellect and intuition that defined Dr. Levkov’s life and work.

Past Exhibitions

• Visual Arts Student Exhibition 2025 | Curated by Professor Thomas Ruggio & Professor Jeffrey Price
• RADICAL ACTION: Tracing Dorothy Day | Kristi Pfister
• The North Star | works by Diego Garcia
• The Women Dandies of The DRC: Dressing Dapper As Gendered Resistance In Central Africa | Photographs by Junior D. Kannah
• Love Your Mother | Jennie Thwing
• Visual Arts Student Exhibition 2024
• Carthage | Paintings by Fedele Spadafora
• The Gratitude Project: Paintings and Poetry by the US Poets Laureate
• Time is a River | Curated by Cara Lynch
• A Gift Of Light | Works by Br. Kenneth Chapman
• Visual Arts Student Exhibition 2023
• Saving Beauty: The Contemporary Icons of Threatened And Endangered Species of Angela Manno by Angela Manno
• My Own Rose-Tinted 3D Glasses by Werner Sun
• Dublin Bay by Liam Hourican
• FORMATION: Images of the Body by Tobi Kahn
• Personae by Carlos David
• Visual Arts Student Exhibition 2022
• The Weight of Optimism: Works by Heather Layton
• Considering the Goddess: A Survey of Sculptural Works by John Cino
• Cesare Dandini’s Holy Family with the Infant St. John: A Rediscovered Florentine Baroque Masterpiece
• A Hidden Wholeness: The Zen Photography of Thomas Merton*
• Art as a Spiritual Practice
• A Woman's Work..., Curated by Beth Giacummo
• Struggle - An Exhibit of Our Times, The Lincoln Park Conservancy, Inc.
• Female Gender Identity and Equality by the New York Society of Women Artists
• Unapologetically Me by Alvin Clayton
• Women in the Abstract: A Solo Exhibition by Award-Winning Artist, Steve Lyons
• Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition
• Plastic Paradise by Elena Kalman
• Female Gender Identity and Equality By New York Society of Women Artists (NYSWA)
• The Visual Arts Student Exhibition, curated by The Visual Arts Faculty
• SHE Voices: Expressions of Femininity, featuring Esther Kong Lo, Gloria Crouch-Nixon and Judith Weber.
• Influenced by Matisse: New Works by Alvin Clayton
• Shifting Focus: Hidden in Plain Sight, Curated by Rick Palladino
• More Fun Than Fun, featuring Andrea Beizer, Alysa Bennett, Ruby Silvious, Carol Taylor-Kearney, Peter Treiber, and Ruth Wolf
   

The North Star

Diego Garcia

January 14–February 28, 2025