Este Lewis AKA Soy Este (b.1983)
If Agnes Martin were to work in cinnamon Trident, the result would be Este Lewis’ minimalist grid of familiar red rectangles.
—Philadelphia WeeklyThe writing’s on the wallpaper...
Soy Este creates a frisson in conceptual art. As an artist who finds her objects of inspiration primarily in supermarket aisles, grocery shelves and the more dimly lit passages of dollar stores, Lewis is a gleaner, sorter and articulator of our modern, mass-produced universe.
Item after item, her art awakens the most mundane of checkout purchases and repurpose them into abstract pattern. Lewis gives voice to the elegance of toilet paper and napkins, crackers and gum, fuses and foil... not as an advertiser might, but as an artist should--with humor.
For Lewis, every stick of chewing gum has a different face. Each contains its own character, handwriting, and (lovely) human flaws.
Lewis’s wallpaper art has been featured in many magazines that include House Beautiful, Time Out, New York Magazine (“Best Bets”), Details Magazine, and The Food Network Magazine. Internationally, her work has appeared in Grazia Magazine Middle East and Canada’s The Globe and Mail.
Lewis graduated from the Yale School of Art with an MFA in Graphic Design and currently lives in New York. She maintains a practice where living life and making art overlap. See more of what she does at estelewis.com.
