Sally Gall photographs the natural world, using her keen eye for composition to create abstractions of familiar subjects.
“For forty 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 canyon walls, grottoes and 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
Sally Gall lives and works in New York City. Her work is in numerous museums and collections worldwide, notably the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, The Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 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, Director’s Guest at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, and a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist’s Fellowship.
