Sally Gall
Sally Gall was born in Washington D.C. in 1956. She lives and works in New York City. Gall earned her Bachelor ofFine Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design inProvidence, Rhode Island in 1978.
The natural world is the core of Gall’s art. Although representational, her photographs are often abstracted versions of our environment and surroundings. By eliminating information from her photos, particularly what
could give us a sense of three dimensionality, she creates images of something unrecognizable out of what are ordinarily recognizable objects. Gall’s images isolate the moment between representation and abstraction.
Some of Gall’s series have focused on how we move through and shape our world. These have included photos of cultivated fields, hiking trails and laundry hanging on lines. Other series have centred on the stillness of the
Earth in action: mirror-like bodies of water, odd subterranean spaces and, most recently, giant rock walls.
Gall strives for photographic veracity: what is in front of the lens is true. As a self-described “conventional image-maker”, details are not added nor deleted. She prefers to capture how the world feels at a moment… not simply how it looks nor even a manipulated representation of how it could look. Her photographs are contemplative.
With a career spanning over 40 years, Gall has been a Rockefeller Foundation Resident and a Director’s Guest at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation. Her works are included in numerous personal and public collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, Texas) and the Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris, France).
