Sally Gall gained national recognition for her landscape photography
of formal gardens, serene seascapes and farmed topography taken throughout
Europe. Void of people, Gall's photographs embrace notions of romanticism,
focusing on the simplicity and beauty that nature inspires. For more
than twenty years, Gall has amassed an impressive body of work that
has stayed true to her vision while continuing to expand the parameters
of landscape photography.
Sally Gall returns to Chicago after a ten year absence, debuting
new work from her recent monograph, Subterranea (Umbrage Editions),
where quarries, caves and light take center stage. The inspiration
for this new series came by accident, when hiking in s jungle near
Vera Cruz, Mexico and a tremendous downpour forced her into a cave
for shelter. It was here that Gall discovered life under the soil.
After an initial moment of panic, Gall turned her camera to the beauty
surrounding her. This moment of shelter led Gall on a three year project
taking her to the caves and quarries in Thailand, Belize, Italy, France,
California and the Yucatan peninsula. As she said, "that is when
I began to comprehend that I had left the horizon behind and entered
the inner outdoors, where known boundaries disappear and night and
day somehow manage to coexist.... I have discovered for myself and
I hope others, the substance of darkness in Subterranea's internal
landscape."
Sally Gall's work has been exhibited throughout the United States
and Europe. Her images are part of numerous public and private collections,
including the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY), The Guggenheim
Museum (New York, NY), The Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, TX) and The
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others. She has taught workshops
internationally and has been a participant in artist residency programs
at the MacDowell Artists Colony, and the Rockefeller Foundation Residency,
Bellagio, Italy.