Audrey Esteves is a painter and printmaker who studied Art and Visual Culture and American Studies at Bates College. Audrey’s oil paintings 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 was the co-Editor in Chief for 5 issues and 3 micro-issues of the literary arts magazine, Snaggletooth, and helped run the student radio station at WRBC 91.5FM.

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