Jasper Marsalis: Open Rehearsal Artist-in-Residence

Jasper Marsalis: Open Rehearsal Artist-in-Residence

Presented by the Arts Research Center

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Artist in a paint-splattered shirt stands in a cluttered studio beside worktables, supplies, and a rolling chair; his shadow looms behind.

Jasper Maralis by Hannah Tacher, courtesy of Cultured Magazine

About the Artist:

Jasper Marsalis works across painting, sculpture, music and text to elaborate a parallel between the space of the artwork and a performer on stage, both of which entail an experience of being consumed by audiences. Glaring spotlights are depicted throughout his work, obscuring their intended objects and acting as obstacles to vision. The tension of impermeability is mirrored in the sculptures whose surface fractures seem to chisel at opacity. By troubling perception, Marsalis interrogates the ocular centrism of visual art and the associated role of spectacle and access. Recent select exhibitions include: Still Life, Chisenhale Gallery UK, 2026; 15th Kaunas Biennial, Kaunas, 2025; Dark Forest Theory, Wesleyan University Center for the Arts, 2025; Einschub, Aspen Art Museum, 2025; Alice Coltrane: Monument Eternal, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2025; and Zürich Biennial, 2025. Marsalis currently lives and works in London, and performs under the name Slauson Malone 1. 

About the Open Rehearsal Artist-in-Residence Program:

Over the next three years, the ARC will welcome artists who consider their making a mode of thought, and scholars whose thinking emerges from a practice, all experimenting with what research can look like when it is made rather than written.

Each residency is shaped with the artist, following where their work and interests lead, unfolding across performances, workshops, and conversations on process. Residents return over three years, part of a shared project that holds them in each other's orbit and in that of practitioners across campus. In 2029, a festival gathers the AIRs, working groups, and the wider communities.

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