The State Fair of Texas: A Feeling, in Pictures

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:

1.  Jenny Holzer, THE LIVING SERIES: SOMETIMES YOU HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE…, 1980-1982
2. William Eggleston, from Los Alamos, 1966 – 1974
3. Claus Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, French Fries and Ketchup, 1963
4. Peter Saul, Icebox Number 9, 1963
5. Elizabeth Crawford, Scream, 2006
6. Janine Antoni, Gnaw, 1992
7. Rebbeca Warren, Yes, Olga,2007
8. Margaret Meehan, The Pugilist, 2011
9. Neo Rauch, Kühlraum, 2002
10. Jeff Koons, Ushering in Banality, 1988
11. Martin Paar, Boy with Popsicle
12. Lindee Climo, Brockle Ox Team, 2009
13. Tim Berg and Rebekah Myers, As good as gold, 2011