Zig-a-Zigallery – Spice Girls Art Show at the FALL
Spice Girls diorama at the Fall Gallery Vancouver July 7 2012.
Before the Dukes of September show last night (read my review here) with the fogies at the Orpheum we stopped in at the Fall Tattoo and Art Gallery to see what the kids are up to these days.
Turns out they’re into their own form of nostalgia – remembering/celebrating the ’90s by way of the Spice Girls.
Vancouver nurse/gallery curator Christina Chant put on the show, a follow-up to Bill You Murray Me, another celebrity-inspired gallery from earlier this year. The idea is to come up with some Spice Girls-inspired art; everyone, no matter what their degree of talent, is invited to submit.
As with the previous show, Zig-a-Zigallery offered an embarrassment of creative riches. These pics, as bad as they are, don’t do justice to the variety and imagination on display, but they give some indication of the art. Not pictured: a two-page comic strip; Spice Girls envisioned as Futurama-ish disembodied heads; and the drag version of the singers, who were to make an appearance later on in the evening.
Spice Girls via Picasso at the Fall Gallery Vancouver July 7 2012.
