1988
Gelatin silver print
15 1/16 x 15 1/8 in
Mead Art Museum, Amherst College
AC 1999.141.12
Gift of Stanley and Diane Person

Sally Gall’s portrayal of nature is phantasmic and dream-like. Through her photography, Gall hopes to “immerse viewers in a visceral and sensual contemplation of nature and our place within it.”¹ In Montresor, Gall is channeling the Impressionists; her choice of location, a row of trees along a body of water, is akin to Monet’s “Poplar” series. Montresor has a painterly quality; the edges of the forms are slightly blurred and through this approach, a sense of movement and airiness is achieved. One can sense a slight breeze, a changing light. The mirror-like surface of the river provides a calm, contemplative air. Through the absence of people and structures, the image becomes timeless. The artist seems to communicate with an earlier time, a more wholesome existence through nature.

-Elizabeth Gouin

1 “Sally Gall – Bio,” SallyGall.com, accessed July 3, 2015, http://www.sallygall.com/html/Bio.html.


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