Sally Gall, Apparition, 2017
Internationally renowned artist Sally Gall turns her focus skyward in her highly-anticipated artist book, Heavenly Creatures. Gall photographs the ephemeral beauty of earthbound objects lofted by wind into the infinite space of the sky.
Gall photographs the everyday sight of laundry hung out to dry on the line, as it morphs from human to abstract. These scenes of billowing cloth and color are dances choreographed by the wind, floating in a luminous sky.
Even higher up and beyond our reach, Gall creates images out of the skyward movement of kites, fragile objects connected to the earth by the slightest of strings, animated by the wind and striving ever upwards.
Heavenly Creatures continues Sally Gall’s lifetime investigation of the sensual properties of the natural world, in this case, light, air, wind, and sky. Abstracted by composition, context, and color, these anthropomorphic photographs suggest sea creatures, constellations, and other planetary forces, blooming flowers, swarms of birds, microscopic amoebas. Gall states, "I’m drawn to abstract painters that reference a landscape just by a few strokes of paint…” Indeed, the abstract forms against a bright and atmospheric sky are evocative of Miro, O’Keefe, Kandisnky, and other lyrical non-representational painters she admires.
Even higher up and beyond our reach, Gall creates images out of the skyward movement of kites, fragile objects connected to the earth by the slightest of strings, animated by the wind and striving ever upwards.
Heavenly Creatures continues Sally Gall’s lifetime investigation of the sensual properties of the natural world, in this case, light, air, wind, and sky. Abstracted by composition, context, and color, these anthropomorphic photographs suggest sea creatures, constellations, and other planetary forces, blooming flowers, swarms of birds, microscopic amoebas. Gall states, "I’m drawn to abstract painters that reference a landscape just by a few strokes of paint…” Indeed, the abstract forms against a bright and atmospheric sky are evocative of Miro, O’Keefe, Kandisnky, and other lyrical non-representational painters she admires.
