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Modern and contemporary artists and art – Luis Gispert
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Luis Gispert‚ whose work was included in the 2002 Whitney Biennial‚ makes photographs and sculptures that synthesize hip-hop’s visually baroque ethos with art-historical referents ranging from Renaissance painting to early modern furniture.
zachfeuer.com Luis Gispert: Reviews, Biographical information and images
artpace.org Luis Gispert’s exhibition features works from two recent series. It includes eleven large-scale photos: three from Cheerleaders (2001) and eight from the artist’s newest project, Urban Myths Part I (2003), as well as two looped videos. The works reveal an increasingly explicit interest in the hybrid space of adaptation and assimilation.
query.nytimes.com Luis Gispert doesn't create anything startlingly new, but in his photography, video and sculpture he weaves together familiar strands of Pop Art, Surrealism and Conceptualism with technical polish and theatrical flair. And he toys with sociological ideas with the intellectual agility of an energetic young semiotics professor.
universityartgallery.ucsd.edu "Through his photographic, time-based, and sculptural works, Luis Gispert prompts a conversation that is radically of the moment. His use of startling iconography - images of cheerleaders, objects made of bodyshop machinery or speaker boxes - demonstrates his understanding of what fuels image-making in a contemporary American culture where gender, eithnicity, class, and generation constantly loop into each other
publicartfund.org Luis Gispert, Laid Back in the Cut
Luis Gispert lives and works in Brooklyn. He has formulated a seductive urban aesthetic, creating sculptures that incorporate objects identified with hip-hop culture--turntables, chrome tire rims, gold jewelry, rhinestones, fake fur, and boom boxes--into semi-usable furniture designs.
tfaoi.com Luis Gispert, Loud Image
Following the momentum of Luis Gispert's success at the 2002 Whitney Biennial, the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, is proud to present the first full-fledged solo presentation of Gispert's work in a major museum setting.
signonsandiego.com Brooklyn-based artist Luis Gispert puts such a notion into play in "loudIMAGE," an exhibition originated by Dartmouth College's Hood Museum that is on view at UCSD's University Art Gallery.