"Cassie eats cockroaches" by Kate Alboreo

Ink on Bristol Paper | 108”x 10.25”x 13” | 2025 | Kate Alboreo is a Brooklyn based artist who creates paintings and drawings that explore survival, queerness, sexuality, the slow violence of aging, the mundane violence of living socially, and the subtle violence of self-destructive patterns. Using wrestlers as recurring figures, Alboreo stages scenes of entanglement, struggle, and suspended dominance, examining the choreography of contact and the blurred boundary between violence and care. These figures often appear alongside or intertwined with plant life—trees, vines, invasive species—that act as quiet witnesses or active participants, suggesting cycles of growth, decay, and adaptation.