Stadium | Jasper Marsalis

Closing: Stadium will close with one final night under the lights on Friday, May 28th from 8:30pm – 10pm. Bring your friends, families welcome — we look forward to seeing you!

Jasper Marsalis (b. 1995) is an artist and musician who lives and works in Los Angeles. This specially commissioned outdoor project was developed by the artist and Midway Contemporary Art over the later half of 2020. An anti-monument, Stadium’s crater-like void proposes an arena for reflection.

In 2019, Marsalis published an artist book, Crater Speak, in which he writes, “Crater Speak is the expression of presence as absence (and vice versa). Its existence formed by lack and loss. Destruction as its creation, branded by alien force. Instead of focusing on the spectacle of origin, I propose focusing on its nowness. It’s absent voice/stare/body/place.” 

Marsalis has had recent exhibitions at Kristina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2020); Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN (2019); and Svetlana, New York, NY (2018). Under the moniker Slauson Malone, he released the albums Vergangenheitsbewältigung (Crater Speak) in 2020 and A Quiet Farwell 2016-2018 in 2019.
 

Stadium is located at the site of Wall Companies future Malcolm Yards development project. We would like to thank John and Patricia Wall, Jeff Ellerd, Sara Richter, and Larey Anne Swanson for their generous support of this project.