Plyos
Tessa Greene O'Brien, Tollef Runquist, and Jamie Gray Williams
April 30 – May 28, 2022
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Cape Slit Moons, 2024
Oil, bleach, dye, wax resist on dyed canvas
60" x 60"
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Cleaners, 2024
Oil on linen
36" x 36"
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Yellow Field, Cape Split, 2024
Oil on linen
21-1/2" x 20-1/2"
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Cape Split Nook, 2024
Oil on linen
15-1/2" x 14-1/2"
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Lupines in Nalgene, Castine, 2024
Oil on linen
14" x 11"
Tessa Greene O'Brien
January Hydrangea, 2025
Oil on canvas
14" x 11"
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Eleanor's Fence, 2025
Oil on canvas
14" x 11"
Tessa Greene O'Brien
E. Fence W. Winter Garden, 2025
Oil on canvas
14" x 11"
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Honey Hive, 2023
Oil, wax resist and bleach on dyed canvas
60" x 48"
SOLD
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Crescent Beach, 2023
Oil on dyed canvas
24" x 21"
SOLD
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Ballfield, 2023
Oil on canvas
14" x 11"
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Small Point Navy Rd., 2023
Oil, wax resist and bleach on dyed canvas
60" x 48"
SOLD
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Winter St., Waterville, 2023
Oil on canvas
14" x 11"
SOLD
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Fast Car, 2023
Oil on dyed canvas
72" x 60"
SOLD
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Spurwink Hives, 2023
Oil on canvas
39" x 41"
Tessa Greene O'Brien
CBS & Forsythia, 2023
Oil, wax resist and bleach on dyed canvas
30" x 24"
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Maple St., 2023
Oil on canvas
46-1/2" x 32"
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Haystack Vase & Irina, 2023
Oil on canvas
34" x 24"
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Bartlett St., 2023
Oil on dyed canvas
60" x 48"
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Heather's House, 2023
Oil on canvas
60" x 48"
SOLD
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Eastport Sunrise, 2023
Dye and wax resist
14" x 11"
SOLD
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Cats Cave Tour at Swim Beach, 2023
Oil on canvas
60" x 48"
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Izzy in the Corner, 2023
Oil on canvas
24" x 20"
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Kew Gardens, 2023
Oil on canvas
14" x 11"
SOLD
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Morris Arboretum, 2023
Oil, wax resist and acrylic on canvas
12" x 12"
SOLD
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Hot Shade, 2022
Oil on linen
20" x 16"
SOLD
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Ft. Williams Garden, 2022
Oil on linen
8" x 6"
SOLD
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Izzy and Wally, 2022
Oil on dyed canvas
24" x 18"
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Layla, 2022
Oil on linen
18" x 24"
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Elizabeth St Gardens, 2022
Oil and acrylic on dyed canvas
60" x 48"
SOLD
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Izzy Baby, 2022
Oil on linen
20" x 16"
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Above Ground, 2022
Oil on linen
8" x 6"
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Izzy Yellow, 2022
Oil on linen
8" x 6"
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Cemetery Tall Trees, 2022
Oil on linen
8" x 6"
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Evergreen, 2022
Oil on linen
8" x 6"
SOLD
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Lake Hebron Sunset, 2022
Oil on linen
8" x 6"
SOLD
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Jobsite Ferry Village, 2022
Oil on dyed canvas
14" x 11"
SOLD
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Gigi's Garden, 2022
Oil on dyed canvas
26" x 71"
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Water St. Porch (Blue), 2022
Acrylic on dyed canvas
31-3/4" x 26"
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Flowers for Beverly, 2022
Oil, acrylic on dyed canvas
31" x 25"
SOLD
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Surf Point Chair, 2022
Oil on linen
21-1/2" x 17-3/4"
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Golden Hour Facade, 2022
Oil on dyed canvas
21-1/2" x 17-3/4"
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Wild Knoll Forsythia, 2022
Oil on linen
20" x 16"
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Hedges, 2022
Oil, acrylic on dyed canvas
72" x 60"
SOLD
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Boynton St. Kitchen Window (Eastport), 2019
Acrylic on canvas on panel
60" x 60"
SOLD
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Shadow Split, 2020
Acrylic, bleach, resist on dyed canvas
60" x 44"
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Yellow Ladder, Water St., 2020
Acrylic and bleach on dyed canvas
20" x 16"
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Golden, Water St., 2021
Acrylic and oil on dyed canvas
20" x 20 1/8"
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Tendency Towards Daydreaming (Dana St.), 2021
Acrylic and oil on canvas
26 7/8" x 24"
SOLD
Tessa Greene O'Brien
No Entry, Pleasant Point, 2020
Oil on panel
16" x 12"
SOLD
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Custom St., 2021
Oil and acrylic on linen
14" x 12"
SOLD
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Clark St., 2021
Oil and acrylic on linen
14" x 12"
SOLD
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Sun Porch, Water St., 2021
Acrylic and bleach on dyed canvas
18" x 18"
SOLD
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Doorway, Boynton St., 2021
Acrylic and oil on dyed canvas
35 7/8" x 30"
SOLD
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Red Roof, 2020
Acrylic on dyed canvas
62" x 42"
SOLD
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Daisy Field County Rd., 2020
Acrylic on dyed canvas, bleach & resist
20" x 16"
SOLD
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Horizon Eater, 2020
Acrylic on dyed canvas
58" x 44"
SOLD
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Ghost Ship Night Harbor, 2020
Acrylic, bleach, resist on dyed canvas
58" x 42"
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Nasturtiums, 2020
Oil on paper
6" x 4"
SOLD
Framed: 12" x 10"
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Fence
Oil on panel
36" x 48"
SOLD
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Light Spill
Oil on panel
14" x 14"
SOLD
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Monson Barn
Acrylic on panel
48" x 60"
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Cushing Ice Cream
Acrylic on panel
60" x 60"
SOLD
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Utility Shed
Oil on panel
40" x 40"
SOLD
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Dorman's Dairy - Dream
Acrylic on panel
60" x 60"
SOLD
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Ladder Lines
Oil on panel
30" x 20"
SOLD
Tessa Greene O'Brien
Blue Wash House, 2020
Watercolor on paper
6" x 4"
Framed: 12" x 10"
SOLD
In 2010, visual artists Will Sears and Tessa O’Brien found themselves doing set design for a Maine music festival. For Tessa, the job came 8 years into the 12 she spent traveling the country doing just such work. Will, however, was new to the art production world and not a Mainer. He just happened to be in state for an art residency when a mutual friend (the sculptor John Bisbee) recommended him for the gig. By the time Will and Tessa had transitioned from friends who met while working to a couple with a house in Portland’s East End, Tessa had tired of the on-the-road lifestyle. She wanted to be engaged with her own community. Although Will took her place on the road for a while, he had the same desire. The two were never going to give up their respective studio practices, but they found a way to settle down by creating their own opportunities, adopting a “collage as lifestyle” approach to earning a living.
Tessa Greene O’Brien was born in mid-coast Maine in 1982, and returned to Maine in 2004, after spending time in Vermont, Oregon, and upstate New York. She graduated from Skidmore College with a B.S. in Fine Art, and received her MFA from Maine College of Art. O'Brien co-founded the Portland Mural Initiative with partner Will Sears in 2015, which curated, funded, and oversaw the execution of 7 murals around southern Maine between 2015 and 2017.
O’Brien has had solo exhibitions at Elizabeth Moss Galleries, Falmouth, Maine and Friedman Gallery at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Grant Wahlquist Gallery, Portland, Maine, Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, Maine, and Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, Maine, among others. She has been an artist in residence at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Monson Arts Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Hewnoaks Artist Colony, and Pace House Residency.
O’Brien lives and works in South Portland, Maine.
