The Painting Area offers a diverse selection of courses that build technical, critical and conceptual skills, with the goal of engaging contemporary painting practices in an interdisciplinary, historical and theoretical manner.
We believe in the importance of developing an individual point of view fostered by creative play and constructive criticism, while fostering awareness of painting's relationship to art history and contemporary visual cultures.
Students are encouraged to move through the painting curriculum from beginning to advanced levels, building skills and developing concept and voice. You may choose to focus on representation, abstraction, painting and technology, or you may want to mix classes from other areas to form an interdisciplinary curriculum. Our goal is to enable you to pursue rigorous self-directed work.
Seminar courses examine contemporary modes and hybrid states of painting through topics such as narrative, installation and philosophy, as well as provide students with access to top practitioners in the field. The School has a diverse and highly-regarded faculty with national and international reputations, and hosts a broad range of visiting artists including Fred Tomaselli, Julia Jacquette, Thomas Eggerer, Charline Von Heyl, Steve DiBenedetto, Angela Dufresne, William Powhida and Franklin Evans.
For more information on the Painting area, contact Angelina Gualdoni.
Fall 2013 Course Offerings
Below are current course offerings for the Painting area. See the Fall 2013 Course Catalog for full descriptions and schedules.
Students in the undergraduate, graduate, Studio and Post-Baccalaureate certificate programs may also take Continuing Education courses for credit.
Beginning Painting / PAI 1009 01
Observational Painting / PAI 1013 01
Basic Figure Painting / PAI 1014 01
Water, Color + Paper / PAI 1022 01
Flatlands: Beginning Abstraction / PAI 1034 01
Intermediate Projects / PAI 2000 01
Abstraction, Representation, Criticality / PAI 2001 01
AbLab- Developing an Abstract Visual Language / PAI 2016 01
Technology + Painting / PAI 2021 01
Figure Painting / PAI 2048 01
Mapping: Drawing + Painting / PAI 2051 01
Realist Painting / PAI 2052 01 / 02 / 03
Painting Space / PAI 2054 01
Intermediate Seminar/Studio Workshop / PAI 2090 01
Group Critique Class / PAI 3000 01
Advanced Seminar: 4 Painters / PAI 3033 01
Portrait Painting: Subject and Subjectivity / PAI 3068 01
Painting Today: The Narrative, The Techniques / PAI 3097 01
Advanced Painting Seminar: The Death of Painting / PAI 3103 01
Observational Painting / PAI 4056 01
Abstraction, Representation, Criticality / PAI 4064 01
Graduate Painting Studio / PAI 6100 01
Graduate Painting + Drawing Studio/Seminar / PAI 6102 01
