Tessar Lo
Jakarta, 1984Biography
Tessar Sebastian Lo is always searching, driven by a desire to work freely beyond the boundaries of convention. As he reaches with an open heart toward that mysterious place where dream-reality and waking-reality merge, his vision is perpetually evolving.
Born in Indonesia and raised in Toronto, Tessar explores themes from his Asian heritage, motivated by the same quest to express nature’s primal force as were primitivists like Gauguin. Working in mixed media on canvas, he builds compound layers of deep, dusky colour and unusual textures, drawing the viewer inward and creating an almost sensual awareness of surface.
By stripping his work of artifice and surrendering to instinct, he aspires to turn seemingly mundane subjects – a corner of a backyard, a walk in the park, a childhood toy – into powerful sources of inspiration and potential. Around these familiar landmarks, he constructs unfolding mythologies that stir the reservoirs of childlike wonder that lie buried within us all.
Tessar Lo lives and works in Toronto.
Works
Living eyes, ants,
mixed media on paper
2012
29 x 21 cm
€ 1.350
pre-rem,
mixed media on paper
2014
21 x 16 cm
€ 1.250
evening’s king,
mixed media on paper
2014
30 x 21 cm
€ 1.350
baby-sitting,
mixed media on paper
2014
26 x 25 cm
€ 1.350
the sun as a basketball,
mixed media on paper
2014
30 x 21 cm
€ 1.350
creep,
mixed media on paper
2014
22 x 22 cm
€ 1.350
blue boo,
mixed media on paper
2014
22 x 22 cm
€ 1.350
the moon as a tiger,
mixed media on paper
2014
22 x 22 cm
€ 1.350
tunnel,
mixed media on paper
2014
57 x 39 cm
€ 1.450
found,
mixed media on paper
2014
36 x 29 cm
€ 1.450
a pink moon’s well wishes,
mixed media on paper
2014
36 x 29 cm
€ 1.450
All praise and burn,
mixed media on paper
2012
79 x 55 cm
€ 1.850
Mask
mixed media on canvas
2011
61 x 46 cm
€ 2.200
Window with moon
mixed media on canvas
2011
61 x 46 cm
€ 2.200
cradle,
mixed media on paper
2014
50 x 40 cm
€ 2.200
how much for stars?,
mixed media on canvas
2014
65 x 50 cm
€ 2.400
constellation jam,
mixed media on paper
2014
60 x 50 cm
€ 2.400
mistakes,
mixed media on canvas
2014
65 x 50 cm
€ 2.400
a break, seen through ruin, awakening, chance, time,
mixed media on canvas
2014
130 x 105 cm
€ 3.800
migrant worker,
mixed media on canvas
2014
130 x 105 cm
€ 3.800
Dropped
mixed media on paper
2012
21 x 15 cm
€ 1.350
syncing feeling,
mixed media on paper
2014
30 x 25 cm
€ 1.350
race,
mixed media on paper
2014
27 x 21 cm
€ 1.350
landscape: tropical,
mixed media on canvas
2014
70 x 50 cm
€ 2.400
Zero watching the upside-down forest,
mixed media on paper
2012
79 x 109 cm
€ 2.800
kintamani shh,
mixed media on paper
2014
30 x 21 cm
€ 1.350
watermelon candy,
mixed media on paper
2014
27 x 21 cm
€ 1.350
red sky, hi bye,
mixed media on canvas
2014
65 x 50 cm
€ 2.400
time difference,
mixed media on canvas
2014
65 x 50 cm
€ 2.400
Hang out + on,
mixed media on paper
2011
21 X 14 cm
€ 1.100
Record
mixed media on paper
2012
79 x 109 cm
€ 2.800
monochrome harvest,
mixed media on paper
2014
32 x 26 cm
€ 1.350
In the dark we danced
mixed media on canvas
2011
92 x 112 cm
€ 3.800
all the things before the jazz
mixed media on canvas
2011
99 x 102 cm
€ 3.800
Vage beast, in passing,
mixed media on paper
2011
14 x 21 cm
€ 1.100
short story,
mixed media canvas
2014
50 x 40 cm
€ 2.200
bouquet boo,
mixed media on canvas
2014
65 x 50 cm
€ 2.400
