Audrey Esteves is a painter and printmaker currently pursuing a Bachelor of Arts at Bates College in Arts and Visual Culture (Studio) and American Studies. Audrey’s oil paintings and monotype prints explore themes of resting, sleeping, dreaming, and waking up. Sleep functions as both a physical state—body heat, slow breathing, relaxed muscles, weight—and as psychological entry into skewed memories, mundanity, vulnerability, fears, and desires. The compositions embrace a dreamlike quality, where forms soften and fold in on themselves and time and light feel suspended. Representing these subliminal feelings through paint and ink, they attempt to capture the sensuality and expression that sleep carries with it, through night into morning.

At Bates, Audrey is the co-Editor in Chief of the literary arts magazine, Snaggletooth, and helps run the student radio station WRBC 91.5FM.

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