Cordula Volkening: “TRANSITION” Nov. 17-23

Please join us on Thursday November 20th, 7pm-10pm.

TRANSITION: May we go to the places that scare us
Paintings and light objects by Cordula Volkening

Article in NY Times about Cordula Volkening
Photograph by Stefan Falke
more: http://stefanfalkephotography.blogspot.com/2008/11/transition.html

Cordula Volkening Paints despite Brain Cancer
Cordula was diagnosed with advanced brain cancer last September. She has undergone two rounds of brain surgery, radiation and chemo therapy and an experimental clinical trial, which also failed. The tumor has impaired her ability to speak, but as her friend photographer Stefan Falke says, the effects of the cancer and the treatments have “not kept her from continuously creating great art.”
Cordula was born and raised in Germany and has lived in Brooklyn since 1985. She holds a degree in fine art from the School of Art and Design in Kiel, Germany. She has had solo and group shows and has won fellowships and various awards for her work. She was the owner of Living Art Space, a design and construction management firm.
Cordula considers her style to be “a unique kind of visual storytelling … 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.”
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 view now

09.04.-09.30.2010 Opening: Saturday 09.04.2010 7-10pm In September 2010, Peter will be showing a new series of large-scale photographs at Open Source Gallery based on a site-specific installation of his “Trainset Ghetto” sets on the street in front of the gallery storefront space. The images will feature increasingly bizarre and phantasmagorical juxtapositions of time, scale, and [...]

upcoming

ORFI NYC: LIVE GIG 2010
Nobuko: wa
Pirmin Hagen: First

past

Images NYC
make Soap Box Racers for the Soap Box Derby
ONE BIG WINDMILL
Open Source Residency w/Austrian Artists
Patricia Watwood: Portraits 20/10
Cornucopias: Paintings by Rachel Youens
Ondrej Brody & Kristofer Paetau: Wang Bin Torture in Commercial Quality, High Quality and Museum Quality
Akiyuki Ina: Emitting Evanescent Beauty
John Coburn: Fairlane Marauder
Soup Kitchen 12.1 – 12.24