WINTER ADULTS: Reductive Techniques for Drawing and Painting

Course Description:
This class explores how erasure, restraint, and omission can create presence through utilizing charcoal and oil paints. Through layered mark-making and subtraction, students will learn to build images by removing rather than adding. The course emphasizes process, material sensitivity, and cultivating subtlety through minimal gestures and atmospheric depth.

Instructor: Ivo Makianich

Ivo Makianich is a painter and educator whose work explores the relationship between time, space, and memory through a reductive, time-bound painting process. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and raised in California, he later moved to New England. He holds a B.A. in Studio Art from California State University, Long Beach, an M.A. in Art from Eastern Illinois University, and an M.F.A. in Painting from Boston University.Makianich teaches in the... Learn More »

Age range:

Adult

Students min/max:

4/10

Duration:

6 weeks

Day/time:

Tuesdays, January 27 - March 10, 5:30pm - 8:30pm (no class 2/17)

Dates:

January 27, 2026

February 3, 2026

February 10, 2026

February 24, 2026

March 3, 2026

March 10, 2026

Location:

Room 224

Cost:

$265