Aerial

Sally Gall
Julie Saul Gallery, NYC
Sep 8 – Oct 22

Traditionally a black and white landscape photographer, Sally Gall immerses herself in a world of beautifully saturated colors and hues in her recent exhibition “Aerial” at Julie Saul Gallery. Gall’s work is at its core experiential. Her subject seems so mundane and so everyday: the hanging of clothes to dry. Yet it is in this mundane task that she allows us to discover the beauty in what would otherwise be considered a chore. She shows us creatures of the sea, cellular organisms, and blooming flowers. Gall puts on a dance splashing color palettes of master painters contrasting with a brilliant sky. It is in this brilliance that her pictures are born.

Gall’s images transport us, to a time of our youth. They bring us to a time when we ran beneath these cloth lines, holding on to our young innocence that allowed us to see the beauty and drama of clothes hung from a line. It is the experience of reviving this way of viewing the world that we have lost, that creates such a sense of longing. It is a longing for our youth, a longing for the magic that we used to find in the mundane, and a longing to view the world as we did as children. It is in this romance, crafted and conjured through the lens that “Aerial” takes form.

By Connor Wray