Spaghetti House

Spaghetti House is a sculpture and installation project inspired by Italian American (or Canadian) restaurants of the 90s. Named in homage to Vancouver’s Nick’s Spaghetti House (open from 1955 to 2017), the project aims to recreate the kitsch that typified Italian restaurants of this type. Using ceramic sculptures, painting, and found objects, the project not only plays on nostalgia for the idiosyncratic restaurant as a genre but is also an attempt to comment on disappearing cultural institutions – as a fake restaurant, this Spaghetti House can stand in for the many real “spaghetti houses” that once did exist but have been closed down due to rising rents, gentrification, and redevelopment.