Luis Gispert and Jeffrey Reed, Blasterettes, c-print, 2004. 27″x 39″.
Thursday, October 2, 2008, 5:30pm | Location TBA
Hip-hop and youth culture and the Cuban-American experience are key influences in the work of artist Luis Gispert. Creating art through a wide range of media, including photographs, sculpture, film, and installation, Gispert often incorporates a high-gloss aesthetic, fashionable appropriation of pop genres and sampled music to provide a rich intellectual framework for his art. Using the concept of remixing as a critical tool, Gispert brings together disparate elements from art, history, and contemporary culture.
His work includes the experimental film, Stereomongrel, which blends such genres as 1970’s and 80’s Italian horror movies, psychological/supernatural thrillers, and the unattainable ideals—both physical and economic—found in hip-hop music videos and fashion magazines. His installations have been exhibited at the 2002 Whitney Biennial, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York.
Luis Gispert received his BFA in film from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996, and his MFA at Yale University in 2001.
