Portfolio, updated May 2025.

Untitled, oil on canvas. ~5x6.5ft. 2025.
Inspired by painters such as Renato Guttuso and T.C. Cannon, I hope to create a unique landscape of my time spent in Italy by layering an ambiguous figure against a backdrop of abstracted, geometrical and architectural features.

Untitled Study, oil board. 2025.

Now that I am where you are, oil on found denim, cotton, burlap, string, and cardboard. 2025.
This layered piece combines several different textures, fabrics, and other materials to create a complex multi-media piece. It reconstructs denim jeans into architectural features. Pockets are arches, seams are roads, hems are stairways. The shape of the canvas was created by pinning and gluing different layers of denim and fabric together before painting.

Frutto di cristallo / Glass Fruit 2, Broken glass, fruit, ceramic plate. 2025.
It takes days for fruit to begin to rot if left out at room temperature. This project attempts to cover up the soft delicacy of fresh fruit with the harsh cuts of broken glass. It creates a strange temptation and plays with the ideas of opposites, inspired by the surrealist work Le Déjeuner en fourrure by Méret Oppenheim. Mosaicked on the surfaces of the fruit are small, sharp shards of glass in different shapes, sizes, and thicknesses. It is an experimentation of desire and material, of nature and time. When first applied, the glass creates a beautiful hard-candy-like decoration on the skin of the fruit and berries. Quickly, in reaction both to the glue and exposure to air and temperature, the fruit will begin to brown, rot, and mold beneath its glass casing, seeping through the cracks of the mosaic. With this work, I wish to present to the audience a question of taste, desire, and preservation.

Horses, earthenware tiles. 2023.

Vespers triptych, natural and synthetic dyes on salted raw canvas. 2023.Developed for a project centered around the Louise Glück poem, Vespers. Rotten tomatoes picked from local community garden were boiled down into a light dye, alongside natural dyes made from beets, blueberries, and black beans. I treated raw canvas with salt before attempting to paint with the natural dyes. Then layered with synthetic RIT dye.

Woolgathering, painted and quilted poetry on secondhand items, attached to clothesline. 2024.

Glass fruit, fresh fruit and broken glass. 2023.

Portrait of a girl, oil on canvas. 2021.

Queen, oil on board. 2021.

Vanity, after Alexandre Haefali, gouache and watercolor. 2019.

Color studies, gouache on paper. 2023.

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 completing a Bachelor of Arts at Bates College, double majoring in Arts and Visual Culture on the Studio track, and American Studies. I am the Co-Editor in Chief for Bates College's only literary arts magazine, Snaggletooth Magazine. I lead Layout & Design editing and organize hundreds of visual submissions to compose our bi-semester issues and zine projects. 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 an interest in sewing, painting, and printing poetry and art onto hand-me-down and secondhand clothes and quilts. I work frequently in collaging, printmaking, and oil painting.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