Jenny Holzer, THE LIVING SERIES: SOMETIMES YOU HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE..., 1980-1982
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.
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
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
