Macarena Rojas Studio

.newyork is pleased to invite you to In The Whitewater, the solo exhibition by
Macarena Rojas Osterling (b. 1985, Lima, Perú).
The show will run from Thursday, May 7th through Friday, July 10th, 2026. The

opening reception will be held at Praxis Gallery, 501A W 20 Street, on Thurs-
day, May 14th, from 6 to 8 pm.

‘In The Whitewater’
By Jenn Ellis
Lines and logic jolted by movement and actuality; soft forms clouded by their

composites; words and wits, a visual play choreographed by the gestural mo-
tions of wading and cascading. ‘In the Whitewater’ by Macarena Rojas Oster-
ling marks the Peruvian artist’s first solo exhibition in New York at Praxis Ga-
llery. Through drawings, paintings and sculptures, the major show unpacks that

instant, moment and feeling, of being in the break of a wave, or indeed - whi-
tewater. A metaphor for life’s tumultuous, shattering yet exhilarating moments,

it also speaks to Osterling’s background: growing up by the Peruvian coast in
Lima, taking to the Pacific Ocean as a surfer for respite and reset. Engrained in

Osterling’s pieces is this tension, between her training as an architect, which im-
plicated a rigour and non-expressive precision, and her daily reality as a mother

of two, with all of its unexpected beauty, mess and sparks of play. To encounter

Osterling’s works is to enter a world of composites, different realities, amas-
sed and overlaid openly into one. She is a master draughtswoman but equally a

sculptor, an observer of the quotidian but crucially an expressor of sentiment.

Raw and poignant, yet delicate and rough, ‘In the Whitewater’ swells and tu-
mults, propelling us into a world of articulated complexity.