Jennifer Ling Datchuk American, b. 1980
Are You Even Trying, 2026
Neon, acrylic, porcelain
40 x 8 x 4 in
101.6 x 20.3 x 10.2 cm
101.6 x 20.3 x 10.2 cm
Further images
In this work, Datchuk creates an acrylic pregnancy test, outlined in blue neon, with the test window highlighted in red neon. Instead of two lines within this red circle, Datchuk...
In this work, Datchuk creates an acrylic pregnancy test, outlined in blue neon, with the test window highlighted in red neon. Instead of two lines within this red circle, Datchuk crafted two replicas of the Venus of Willendorf, a prehistoric sculpture of a woman's body excavated in Austria. Some have speculated that thirty thousand years ago this “Venus” represented a fertility figure, a mother goddess, or even an aphrodisiac made by and for men. Datchuk explains, “This idea came to me while zoned out on a drive home from teaching all day. The best part of my creative brain was zapped by helping students navigate their conceptual projects. I kept asking myself, “Are you even trying...to make work right now?"
Provenance
Artist StudioArtist Studio
Exhibitions
Jennifer Ling Datchuk and Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: In Our Hands, Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio, TX, 2026Clay Currents, Hatch Art Gallery, Hamtramck, MI; curator: Michael Takahata, 2026
