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Mirrored Dreams
featuring work by
Arminée Chahbazian
Minami Oya
August 8 - October 4, 2026
TINT is pleased to announce Mirrored Dreams, featuring works by Arminée Chahbazian and Minami Oya.
Exhibition Catalogue
Arminée Chahbazian, Phoenix Falling, 2022 Graphite and glass beads on paper and duralar
55” x 41” x 2” Framed
Lis Costa, Vitória Régia ll, 2026
Hand sculpted paper with watercolor
33.5” x 33.5” Framed
Taking inspiration from her native Brazil, Lis Costa delves deeper into her exploration of color in her new body of work. From vibrant greens to bright pink varietals, to densely packed blues, Costa brings the Amazon to life. Her works draw inspiration from flowers to canyons, from rivers to coral. Land and water converge in her piece “Amazonia”: a forest of trees with a fluid river running through it.
Costa’s piece “Vitoria Regia II” exemplifies the micro and macro coexisting within a single work. The Vitoria Regia is a massive Amazonian water lily known for its giant floating leaves and night-blooming, color-changing flowers. Costa’s composition suggests both close observation and vast distance: petals seen under magnification, then expanding outward into planetary fields. Costa’s works flow like water, bloom in color, and capture the heart of the Amazon.
Minami Oya, 2026
Hand-blown glass
6.5” x 9.5” x 9.5”
Vero Reato similarly moves between land and aquatic worlds; her works evoke coral, sea urchins, flowers, pollen, life on a cellular level. In her new series, Coeur de Méduse, Reato presents modular works, designed to be arranged in any configuration. At the center of each piece sits a luminous glass bead. While the concrete flowers feel very much grounded in land, the phosphorescent glass center recalls marine life, combining the two realms in one piece.
Vero Reato, Black Konkrecio, 2025
Concrete, metal oxide patina, 24K gold-plated pewter
41” x 18” x 6.3”
Reato’s works also shift between the macro and micro. Her Plisado pieces feel like looking at a cell one minute, and the next, an entire organic ecosystem. These two are worlds apart, appearing in the same work.
Across both practices, scale becomes fluid. Though materially distinct, Costa and Reato’s works meet in this oscillation—where nature is not represented as a fixed subject, but experienced as something alive, continually shifting between inner and outer worlds.
About the Artists
Arminée Chahbazian has been a practicing visual artist for the past 40 years. She earned her MFA from Yale University, and her BA from Scripps College. Born in Colorado, she has been based in Northern California for over 30 years - this follows influential years spent living and working in France and in the eastern US.
Arminée's work has been included in numerous exhibitions along both coasts of the US, as well as in France and Holland; most recent shows have been focused in the San Francisco Bay area in such venues as the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Seager Gray Gallery, Cornerstone Sonoma, Gallery Route One, the Marin Art & Garden Center, and the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming. Los Angeles area venues include the Brand Art Center, the Sasse Museum, and Lois Lambert Gallery. She is an active member of EcoArtSpace and her widely ranging work has been added regularly to many private collections.
Minami Oya is a visual artist, glassmaker, and educator currently living and working in San Francisco. Born and raised on the island of Sado, in Japan, Oya grew up surrounded by nature, art, and ancestral consciousness. She discovered her passion for glass in 2008, at San Francisco State University. She went on to train with master glassmakers in studios such as Pilchuck Glass School, Pittsburgh Glass Center, Corning Museum of Glass, and D.F. Glassworks in Murano, Italy. Oya holds an MFA in Spatial Art from San Jose State University and has taught her craft in several institutions including California College of the Arts, San Jose State University, and Public Glass in San Francisco.
Primarily working in glass, Oya believes the medium reflects conflicting human qualities: fragility and strength, transparency and opacity, darkness and light. She describes its capacity to be hurtful or shatter with mishandling or be soothing to a careful touch. Her abstraction, geometric forms, and monochromatic color palette provide an opportunity for contemplation and personal interpretation.