Kitty Dreams by Chloe Allred

Kitty Dreams, Chloe Allred, 2021. India Ink, Acrylic, Cardboard.

See Chloe at work at Cardboard City during her recent artist-in-residency!

Pollinator Series: Description of Process: "Recently, my studio has been filled with cardboard—which I have been drawing on, painting, cutting, and mounting to create dreamscapes. I am thinking of bringing dreams to life with upcycled materials, showing that those materials can be something more. I am thinking of pollinators— like butterflies, dragonflies, bees…and how artists can act like pollinators to each other, helping one another’s ideas to grow. The inspiration to work with cardboard came from being invited to do a residency here at The Rediscover Center. The upcycling work of The Rediscover Center lit a flame in my mind and I just started making. I no longer see a cardboard box as something that merely needs to be recycled, rather I'm seeing it as the potential armature for a large cardboard dragonfly with intricate wings, or the base for a sleeping moon shrouded in clouds."

About the arist: Chloe Allred is a painter, writer, educator and activist based in Los Angeles. She is a contributing artist and writer for the book, We Believe You (published by Henry Holt in 2016.) Her paintings and writing have been featured in Orange Coast Magazine, Huffington Post, USA Today, and the BBC. She is a founding member of The Body Joy Project, a feminist artist collective that critiques and challenges the way our culture thinks about the body. Allred’s subjects range from surreal portraits to landscape paintings; empathy is at the core of her practice. You can learn more her and her work here.