Jessica "Yessica" Gispert
Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor | Photography
Post-graduate degree Academy of Media Arts Cologne -Germany, MFA Sculpture New York University Steinhardt School, BFA Photography & Art History Florida International University
Jessica (Yessica) Gispert is a visual artist from Miami, FL. Her work interconnects themes of identity, spirituality and corporeality, speaking a language of personal and cross-cultural symbols conveyed through various mediums. Gispert uses transformative materials and processes to confront the instability and complexity of contemporary life, forming narratives that interrogate existence, loss and ritual. Her exploration of Caribbean and Latin American mythology, science and literature shape her artworks’ engagement with what we consider reality and the unseen. Contemplating life’s fleeting connections through material experimentations with wax, metallurgy and photochemistry, Gispert uses such substance as conduits to unknowable realms.