WHERE ART INSPIRES CONNECTION
Mirrored Dreams
featuring work by
Arminée Chahbazian
Minami Oya
August 8 - October 4, 2026
TINT is pleased to present Mirrored Dreams, featuring works by Arminée Chahbazian and Minami Oya. Through drawing and sculpture, both artists create works that hold contrasting elements in tension. Chahbazian's layered compositions bring together elements from different environments and contexts, creating imagined landscapes built from familiar forms, while Oya uses reflection as both material and metaphor, exploring the exchange that occurs when opposing forces meet.
Arminée Chahbazian, Captured, 2026
Graphite and glass beads on paper and duralar
41.5” x 59.5” x 3” Framed
Arminée Chahbazian, Phoenix Falling, 2022
Graphite and glass beads on paper and duralar
55” x 41” x 2” Framed
Chahbazian works with graphite, colored pencil, translucent layers of duralar, and delicately stitched elements of glass beads and wire to create intricate mixed-media works on paper. Her compositions bring together elements that share visual or conceptual connections while existing apart in the natural world: an iceberg and a balloon, jellyfish in front of a waterfall, a giant honeycomb dripping into an arid desert, a mythical phoenix rising above the city that bears its name. Through these unexpected pairings, Chahbazian creates poetic landscapes that explore the beauty and fragility of the environments that inspire her.
Alongside the sense of wonder in Chahbazian's work is an awareness of change and loss. Life forms and structures appear out of place, suggesting landscapes that are changing, becoming physically inaccessible, or existing increasingly as imagined places.
Minami Oya, Impact Horizon 7, 2026
Hand-blown glass
6.5” x 9.5” x 9.5”
Oya's glass sculptures explore reflection as both a physical property and a conceptual tool. Using sheet mirrors and a modern chemical silvering process applied to the interior of blown glass forms, she creates reflective surfaces that shift between object and portal. Her sculptures suggest the presence of alternate realities and invite viewers to consider perspectives beyond the immediately visible.
Minami Oya, Impact Horizon 6, 2026
Hand-blown glass
9” x 10.5” x 10.5”
In Oya’s Impact Horizon series, blown glass forms stretch apart, rest within one another, or meet across mirrored surfaces, creating compositions that suggest moments of exchange and transformation. Her wall-mounted Energy Portraiture works combine sculptural forms with mirrored surfaces, making reflection an integral part of the composition.
In Mirrored Dreams, Chahbazian and Oya invite viewers into dreamlike spaces where the familiar and the imagined converge.
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.