Sallie McCorkle

Geboren 1958 in Texas (USA)

1990-present: Associate Professor of Visual Arts and Head of the Sculpture Program, The Pennsylvania State University
1989: MFA degree in Sculpture, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
1986: BFA degree in Sculpture, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri

Selected Research Projects:
Organizer, »Objects and Visual Culture« An international symposium to be held at Penn State University, 2004.
»The Victorian Laptop« A collaborative project with the MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Selected Exhibitions:
»I. Internationaler Waldkunstpfad«
(Forest Art Path), Darmstadt, Germany
»PROJECT ENDURING LOOK« School of the Art, Institute of Chicago, Illinois
»Troubling Customs« Weems Art Center, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, Canada
»Selections 94: Women Artists-Women Subjects« The Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York
»Ninth Annual Sculpture Competition« Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park, Brooklyn, New York

Currently lives in Pennsylvania (USA)

Foreign Roots/Foreign Exchanges

As an American artist who is creating a project in a garden that addresses the idea of transit, transition, movement and/or travel, I thought about my identity as an American and how that identity shapes all of my travel experiences beyond the United States. Since I enjoying doing site-specific art, I also thought about what a garden means as a site - a place for growth, relaxation, beauty - and how that might influence my decisions concerning this project.

In America, as in most countries, we have many plants that are actually transplants from other countries and nations. We often give these plants common names that identify them as such: Icelandic Poppy, Russian Sage, German Chamomile, English Ivy. My project uses this point as its starting place to address the larger metaphor of transit, travel, cultural exchanges, and global political issues.

Installation im Garten Doderer

Rodinghweg 5