Luis Gispert appropriates designer logos and hip-hop iconography to address class, consumerism, and subculture
“It’s seductive to me, but at the same time, it’s repulsive,” Brooklyn-based sculptor and photographer Luis Gispert (BFA 1996) says as he describes commercial imagery of the American youth and street cultures that permeate his works. As a Cuban-American born and raised in Miami, Gispert grew up fascinated with but removed from the hip-hop and Latina subcultures represented in his sculptures, videos, and photographs.