Works
Series
Exhibitions
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SALLY GALL: THE POETICS OF PLACE
ONLINE SOLO EXHIBITION | FEATURED ON ARTSY August 15 - October 19, 2024Robert Klein Gallery is pleased to present Sally Gall: The Poetics of Place , a compositionally vast and technicolor ode to evocations of the summer season, wherever in the world...Read more -
Sally Gall: Heavenly Creatures
@ Robert Klein Gallery (38 Newbury Street) November 7 - December 21, 2019Gall photographs the everyday sight of laundry hung out to dry on the line, as it morphs from human to abstract. These scenes of billowing cloth and color are dances...Read more
Overview
Perserverance, 2022
"For thirty years I have photographed the beauty and mystery of the natural world - its elemental and sometimes terrifying aspects, its silence, its persistence. To immerse viewers in a visceral and sensual contemplation of nature and our place within it, I have photographed gardens, cultivated fields, swimmers, jet contrails, the twilight zone in caves, blossoming trees, dramatic skies, and the ground level kingdom of things that creep and crawl. I photograph with an ever deepening appreciation for how this place shapes us, even as we shape it with our passage."
Sally Gall’s work focuses on the human experience and individual places within our world. She says, “I want viewers to notice things they don't normally see and consider their connection to the natural world. I hope my photographs will make people appreciate the beauty of nature and the fragility of our environment.” Her devotion to her love of nature is admirable and has remained her focus for many years.
Biography
Perserverance, 2022
"I want to re-create the visceral experience of being in a landscape. The visceral experience is both physical-the way sunlight feels on the skin, or the way we hear the wind rustle-and contemplative and meditative. What compels me is that I walk outdoors in some beautiful, natural space, and I feel very content. I look at things long and hard, and staring at the meadows and woods becomes a springboard into free-association about bigger things. Taking a picture out of the experience is putting myself, and thus hopefully the viewer, into that state of reverie."
Born in Washington, D.C. in 1956, Sally Gall attended Reed College and recieved a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1978, In 1987, Sally Gall moved to New York City, where she still lives and works.Her work is in numerous museums and collections worldwide. She has published three books of photographs: The Water's Edge, Chronicle Books, 1995, Subterranea, Umbrage Editions, 2003, and Heavenly Creatures, Powerhouse Books, 2019.
Sally has been awarded several prestigious fellowships which include two MacDowell Colony Fellowships, a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency, and Director's Guest at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation.
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