Calapooia Center Gallery Exhibit Features Art Student

Naoko Machida of Corvallis will be the featured artist in the Calapooia Center Gallery at Linn-Benton Community College from March 7 to April 15.

The Corvallis resident and second-year art major will be showing a small selection of oil paintings and cut-paper work, including the piece that won the People’s Choice Award at last year’s Corvallis Fall Festival Fine Art Showcase.

Machida was born in Aichi, Japan, in 1981, and came to the states in 2001 to study English and art. She moved to Oregon in 2006 and to Corvallis in 2009, where she began studying drawing, painting and art history at LBCC.

“As an art student, I am still trying to develop my style and medium,” Machida says of her work. “For me, art is a way to recreate and relive my emotional experiences of the past. I often incorporate my childhood memories, such as reactions to storybooks and the sensation of exploring the world, through my artwork. I hope my art can touch the childhood memories of the viewer.”

The Calapooia Center Gallery is used to feature the work of emerging artists who have attended LBCC. It is located in the entrance foyer of the Calapooia Center on the Albany campus, 6500 Pacific Blvd. SW, and is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.

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