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1. Spot, 2007, oil on canvas, 54” x 64”
2. Red Planet, 2007, oil on canvas, 30” x 36”
3. Hungry, 2007, oil on canvas, 30” x 32”
4. Head Down, 2007, oil on canvas, 36” x 44”
5. Night, 2007, oil on canvas, 30” x 32”
6. Listening, 2007, oil on canvas, 28” x 30”
7. Grazing, 2007, oil on canvas, 23” x 24”
8. The Kiss, 2007, oil on canvas, 36 x  44”

Contact Information
206 East Avenue
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
tel: 518-817-9171
e-mail: seckhoff@mac.com
Sally Eckhoff on mac.com
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Artist Statement
I was a young artist in the East Village in Manhattan in the late '70s. My paintings were escapist fantasies about a beautiful life outside the scary place etween Avenues A and B where I lived. When I moved to the country, my work became urgently more populist-minded (paintings about repression and industry) and I got to take my first real stab at depicting the dark side. I had been a typesetter at newspapers and ad shops in New York, and a contributing writer for The Village Voice. New York City is full of symbols and signs, texts and subtexts. This new work represents my courtship with the natural world.

I'm an MFA painting student at UArts, and I am also in the Bennington Writing Seminars, a low-desidence MFA program in Vermont. I'm an essayist as well as a painter, and I have been at work on two book projects: one on working animals --the unsung heroes of this culture -- and the other on painters in the East Village from 1977 - 1987, among which I include myself. The writing work is the template for my efforts as a painter. I explore the distillation of original image, and the messages in art.