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. Examples of the process are seen here.
Materials List: Reductive Techniques for Drawing and Painting
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 - 8:00pm (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
