Growing up mentored by the leading lights of Israel's art world, Gali would take a circuitous journey to a life in art. She wandered the globe, launched successful businesses and started a family before completing her first body of work in 2005 - a search for her place in the world that she called HOME. Gali's subsequent mixed-media cycle and installation, REQUIEM FOR A HOUSEWIFE, pushed back against the domestic identity she encountered in HOME, and laid a defiant claim to her place as an artist.

Now committed, Gali sought out noted painter and teacher Tom Wudl. His guidance - to pay attention, and to have faith in that which is unseen - led Gali in a new, introspective direction, exploring the interior landscape, the void within. Out of this investigation came the Black Paintings. These rich, gouache canvases, from which flicker lights, strands of pearls, and faint, sublimated imagery, were shown at The Jewish Federation Goldsmith Center in early 2010. The series has continued to evolve, with more fully-formed images - butterflies, flowers, and other symbols of transformation and ephemerality - emerging, in three-dimensional form, from the unmanifest silence of blackness.