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.