Cordula Volkening

"I am on the Right of Your Heart"


"Fire in the Belly"


"Who is Afraid of the Dark"

Cordula is a painter who has been working full time for her show which opens this Sunday. Please support her and go to the opening. Here are the details. And read her backstory about her diagonosis of advance brain cancer.

Opening: Dec. 9th (Sunday) 4pm - 8pm
Dec.10th -13th, 2007 - Gallery hours: 11am-6pm

Brooklyn Artist Gym
168 7th Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11215 (Park Slope)
Tel: 718 858 9069
http://www.brooklynartistsgym.com/gallery.html

PRESS RELEASE

GALLERY HOSTS SHOW BY PARK SLOPE ARTIST WITH BRAIN CANCER
WHO: Cordula Volkening
WHAT: Art show entitled "YOU: Would you like an invitation to my destination?"

BACKSTORY: In September, Cordula was diagnosed with stage four glioblastoma (advanced brain cancer). She quit her job in construction/design and resumed her career as a visual artist. (In the 1980s, her artwork was shown in solo and group exhibitions in NY, Chicago, Washington, Germany and France, and earned a variety of honors, including fellowships, awards and media mentions.) She now paints for hours daily in a borrowed studio, in between undergoing radiation, chemotherapy, and what she refers to as "my daily session of: Are You Kidding Me???" Cordula says: "Hey, I got advanced brain cancer - my system kicks me in the butt and screams: Be your authhentic self or you are going to die sooner not later. Any questions?"
BIO: Cordula, 50, comes from "a ridiculous small village in the middle of Germany" and has lived in the U.S., in Brooklyn, since 1985. She holds a degree in fine art from the School of Art and Design in Kiel, Germany, and also attended the Arts Students League in New York. She is the owner of a NYC "design, build and manage company" called Living Art Space. She is collaborating with Kent Jeffrey on two works in progress: "Skye," since 1992, and "Eden," since 1995. (See resume below for details on past art shows and honors.)
ABOUT HER ARTWORK: "My work tells about human mental conditions with the help of a visual language that skips the intellect, therefore asking the viewer to rely on their visceral response," Cordula says. "My work as an artist is to supply language that is unpretentious and allow stories to be told without using tried-out recipes. Once the visuals are created, I become a viewer just like anybody else and surrender to the unique response that each visual solicits."
ON THE WEB: www.myspace.com/cordulavolkening