It’s State Fair time again. I haven’t been in nearly a decade, but I’ve promised my small people I’ll go this year. I look forward to it with a kind of glee mixed with fear – a potent cocktail born of memories of sickness and stickiness and the smell of livestock. In honor of those memories, and to making odoriferous new ones, here’s a “What the State Fair of Texas Makes me Feel Like” art round-up, complete with freaks, things that moo or poo, lard, things that look like lard, digestible indigestibles, and other saccharine banalities.
Image Sources:
- Jenny Holzer, THE LIVING SERIES: SOMETIMES YOU HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE…, 1980-1982
- William Eggleston, from Los Alamos, 1966 – 1974
- Claus Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, French Fries and Ketchup, 1963
- Peter Saul, Icebox Number 9, 1963
- Elizabeth Crawford, Scream, 2006
- Janine Antoni, Gnaw, 1992
- Rebbeca Warren, Yes, Olga,2007
- Margaret Meehan, The Pugilist, 2011
- Neo Rauch, Kühlraum, 2002
- Jeff Koons, Ushering in Banality, 1988
- Martin Paar, Boy with Popsicle
- Lindee Climo, Brockle Ox Team, 2009
- Tim Berg and Rebekah Myers, As good as gold, 2011
