
Installation view
Haptic Fantastic, 2025
Courtesy of Morán Morán
Luis Gispert Haptic Fantastic
Morán Morán is pleased to present Haptic Fantastic, the gallery’s fifth exhibition with Cuban-American artist and filmmaker Luis Gispert.
Born in New Jersey, raised in Miami, and based in Brooklyn, Gispert has spent the last 25 years examining how subcultures influence mainstream aesthetics without losing their core pulse. His work captures the tension between cultural absorption and resistance—how fringe styles become popular, yet still hold onto their original charge.
This new body of work includes five small and medium-scale abstract paintings and three sculptures made from plywood forms. In the paintings, Gispert creates layered, circular compositions that feel both improvised and precise. These dense, almost glyph-like marks form visual rhythms—like diagrams for sound or coded messages from another place. His hand-driven process lends the works an electric energy, as if each form emerged from a trance-like state that Gispert describes as the “haptic-fantastic.”
The sculptural components of the exhibition are comprised of plywood modular “husks” subtly referencing canonical speakers. Imposing and hollow, the sculptures feel like altars to obsolete technology—objects that once spoke loudly and now resonate silently. Stripped of sound, they suggests how cultural artifacts can fade from utility but remain charged with memory.
Together, the works evoke shifting geographies—urban maps, futuristic ruins, or alien settlements in tropical landscapes. Haptic Fantastic plays with distance and dislocation, inviting viewers into imagined spaces where past, present, and possible futures all collide.
Luis Gispert (b. 1972) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He studied at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received his MFA from Yale University.
Gispert has exhibited widely, including solo institutional exhibitions at:
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Berkeley Museum of Art UC Berkeley
University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
Art Pace San Antonio, TX
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
His work is in the permanent collection of over two dozen prominent institutions including:
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL
Museum of Fine Art Boston, Boston, MA
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
UC Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Harvard Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY
Museo Del Bario, New York, NY
Progressive Art Collection, Mayfield Village, OH
Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
Dates
July 26 - September 03, 2025Opening Reception
Saturday, July 26, 6-8pmLocation
641 N. Western AvenueLos Angeles, CA 90004
Artist
Luis Gispert
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Installation Views
All images: Haptic Fantastic, 2025, installation view. Courtesy of Morán Morán

Installation view
Haptic Fantastic, 2025
Courtesy of Morán Morán

Installation view
Haptic Fantastic, 2025
Courtesy of Morán Morán

Installation view
Haptic Fantastic, 2025
Courtesy of Morán Morán

Installation view
Haptic Fantastic, 2025
Courtesy of Morán Morán

Installation view
Haptic Fantastic, 2025
Courtesy of Morán Morán

Installation view
Haptic Fantastic, 2025
Courtesy of Morán Morán
Artworks

Luis Gispert
Entry Point, 2025
Acrylic and ink on cotton rag
31.25 x 23.75 inches
(79.4 x 60.3 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Morán Morán

Luis Gispert
Stray Signal I (casual vibrato), 2025
Plywood
66 x 34 x 22 inches
(167.6 x 86.4 x 55.9 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Morán Morán

Luis Gispert
Daywork Dream, 2025
Acrylic and ink on cotton rag
50 x 40 inches
(127 x 101.6 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Morán Morán

Luis Gispert
Stray Signal III (ghost vibrato), 2025
Plywood
34 x 22 x 22 inches
(86.4 x 55.9 x 55.9 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Morán Morán

Luis Gispert
Morality Hive, 2025
Acrylic and ink on cotton rag
30 x 22 inches
(76.2 x 55.9 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Morán Morán

Luis Gispert
Stray Signal II (silent vibrato), 2025
Plywood
22 x 34 x 22 inches
(55.9 x 86.4 x 55.9 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Morán Morán

Luis Gispert
Soft Targets, 2025
Acrylic and ink on cotton rag
37 x 30 inches
(94 x 76.2 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Morán Morán

Luis Gispert
Thrall, 2025
Acrylic and ink on cotton rag mounted on White Oak museum box
22 x 30 inches
(55.9 x 76.2 cm)
Courtesy of the artist and Morán Morán