Featured image: Aimee Dreams: A Prescribed Burn and Surrender, Chloe Allred, 2022, acrylic on canvas, 18 x 24 in. / 45.72 x 60.96 cm.
Chloe Allred’s paintings transport viewers into dreamlike spaces where the boundaries between waking life, memory, and imagination blur.Â
Chloe Allred creates vivid dreamlike works that blend ritual, surrealism, and self-reflection, exploring belonging and imagination through striking color.
Her vibrant use of color, surreal compositions, and deeply personal figures invite audiences to step into a world of quiet rituals, self-reflection, and mystical symbolism. Through oil, acrylic, and mixed media, Allred captures the luminous beauty of everyday life filtered through a dreamer’s lens.
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Coffee and a Good Book: Radiance in Joshua Tree, Chloe Allred, 2022, oil on canvas, 24 x 18 in. / 60.96 x 45.72 cm.
In Coffee and a Good Book: Radiance in Joshua Tree, Allred paints a serene figure meditating on knowledge and ritual. The swirling sky mirrors the internal landscape of contemplation, while the steaming mug and open book symbolize the nourishment of body and mind. The vivid pinks, oranges, and blues breathe life into a desert-inspired dreamscape, suggesting that wisdom, like the desert, is both vast and intimate.
Morning, Between Now and a Dreamscape, Chloe Allred, 2022, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 36 in. / 121.92 x 91.44 cm.
This work captures a moment of quiet morning reflection, with the central figure seated in a bedroom that bends into a cosmic dreamworld. The ethereal golden swirls escaping from the cup blur the boundaries of reality, filling the room with energy and wonder. The interplay of cool purples and radiant yellows emphasizes the tension between the familiar comfort of home and the limitless possibility of imagination.
My Home is Where I Make It, Chloe Allred, 2020, mixed media, 36 x 24 in. / 91.44 x 60.96 cm.
Allred’s My Home is Where I Make It blends ink, acrylic, and collage into an exploration of impermanence and resilience. A nude figure sits wrapped in fabric, gazing skyward as surreal, otherworldly forms spiral around her. The small house behind her suggests fragility, yet the figure’s grounded presence reaffirms strength and adaptability. This piece embodies the notion that home is not a fixed place but a state of being we carry within ourselves.
Taken together, Chloe Allred’s works emphasize ritual, reflection, and resilience as central themes. Whether through a morning cup of coffee, the dreamlike distortions of a bedroom, or the cosmic vastness of an imagined home, Allred reveals that the act of pausing, contemplating, and creating meaning is itself sacred. Her art transforms intimate personal moments into universal narratives of inner life and belonging.
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Medusa Dreams: The Snakes Inside, Chloe Allred, 2025, oil on canvas, 24 x 18 in. / 60.96 x 45.72 cm.
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