Sally Gall

1956

American (United States)

Sally Gall was born in Washington, D.C. but lives and works in New York City.  Her work is in numerous museums and collections worldwide. She sometimes incorporates the human figure in her work, photographing the body as an extension of nature rather than as a portrait or figure study. Although the sites are diverse, her work is unified by a great feeling for abstract form, as well as a particular feeling for water. Until recently, Gall worked solely in black and white, using nature as her subject. She completed an extensive series of Diana camera images of European formal gardens in the mid-1980s. Later, she switched to the Hasselblad which maintained the square format but significantly altered the focus and technical quality of her work. She has published two books of photographs,The Water's Edge, Chronicle Books, 1995, and Subterranea, Umbrage Editions, 2003.  A monograph featuring two new bodies of work, Aerial and Heavenly Creatures will be published by Powerhouse Books in Spring 2019 and an exhibition to accompany publication will be at Julie Saul Gallery, New York.  Sally has been awarded several prestigious fellowships with include two MacDowell Colony Fellowships, a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency, and she has been a Civitella Ranieri Foundation Director's Guest.  

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