subtle smile / audrey esteves
Portfolio, updated summer 2024.
Horses, earthenware tiles. 2023.
Portrait of a girl, oil on canvas. 2021.
Queen, oil on board. 2021.
Glass fruit, fresh fruit and broken glass. 2023.
Vanity, after Alexandre Haefali, gouache and watercolor. 2019.
Vespers triptych, natural and synthetic dyes on salted raw canvas. 2023.
Carved and sawed antique chair, to make woodcut prints when inked and sat in/leaned on. 2023.
Woolgathering, painted and quilted poetry on secondhand items, attached to clothesline. 2024.
Color studies, gouache on paper. 2023.
Universe, collage with found items. 2019.
Still life of glass, charcoal. 2022.
Still life of coffee pot, oil on canvas. 2024.
You can tell a man by his ear, collage. 2023.
Printmaking. Monotype, etching, linocut.
Ceramic tiles. Earthenware.
Graphic design. Procreate, Adobe InDesign
Logo designs for WRBC, Bates College radio station.
Logo design for Le Ronj, student coffeehouse at Bates College.
Other designs.
about the artist
My name is Audrey Esteves, and I am currently pursuing a Bachelor of Arts at Bates College, double majoring in Arts and Visual Culture on the Studio track, and American Studies. At Bates, I am the Co-Editor in Chief for the college’s only literary arts magazine, Snaggletooth Magazine. I have been making my own zines for years, with my most successful zines being the series Teenage Kicks!. For this series, I survey my social media followers and friends on different topics and issues my generation has dealt with, and compile anonymous answers to these questions into thematically designed mini-zines.My larger artworks typically deal with themes of nostalgia, utilizing utilitarian and physical objects. I have a newfound interest in sewing, painting, and printing poetry and art onto hand-me-down and secondhand clothes and quilts. I work frequently in collaging, printmaking (drypoint etching, monotype, linocut, woodcarving), oil and gouache painting, and figure drawing.I also work as a graphic designer, and have been making digital art for years both for my own brand and for clubs and organizations at my institution. I utilize digital creation programs such as Procreate, Canva, Adobe InDesign, Photoshop and Express.
Self portrait, oil on board. 2024.
InstagramRead all four issues of Teenage Kicks!Check out the newest issues of snaggletooth magazine!Read MOSH!, the Bates Musicians Zine, which I designed the layout/photography for.I have been published in snaggletooth issues 9, 10, and 11 for my artwork, and in issue 12 for my poetry.Awards/Achievements:
Winner of George Deckenbach Fine Arts Award
Winner of the Spotlight on Cranford Teen Artists contest 2022