Sally Gall
Sally Gall was born in Washington D.C. in 1956. She lives and works in New York City.
Gall earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island in 1978.
The overriding philosophy of Gall’s works is to photograph how our world shapes us and how we shape it as we pass through it. She photographs the natural world and its relationship to humanity, creating bodies of works about gardens and cultivated landscapes, as well as the creatures that live at ground level and the things that float through the sky.
In her series “Aerial”, she looks upwards at lines of hanging laundry. With their suspension and movement in the wind, the fabrics seem to take on a different meaning. Some seem to have
an organic life form: their curves appear to transform them into sea creatures, birds or flowers. Others seem to be abstracted shapes that could have been taken from a Miró or KIee painting.
During her career spanning nearly 40 years, Gall has been awarded several fellowships including two MacDowell Colony Fellowships and a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency and has been a Civitella Ranieri Foundation Director’s Guest. 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, Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, Texas) and the Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris France).
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