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To cleanse the palate -- or should we say or palette? -- imbibe the minimalist selections at D. Berman Gallery. Doubt and, ultimately, pleasure creep into the paintings of Denny McCoy and sculptures of Troy Woods, placed like Zen devotionals throughout the demure gallery. McCoy's vertical strips of pale acrylics fade and re-emerge like mirages. Succumbing to their allure, the viewer almost falls forward with anticipation of the next perceived gradation. "Government Canyon 2" alternates the barest of pinks with hints of cooler colors. One suspects that such painting, repeated over years, might try an artist's patience, but the viewer reaps the rewards. Houston-based Woods calls upon his family background in woodworking to mold refined metal-and-wood sculptures. So clean and curved are his bent-and-soldered stainless steel extensions, so pliable his maples and ebonies, it's as if he were working with liquids rather than solids. In "TC3," a bowed band of pallid maple blows like a banner from a gleaming sconce. Ravishing. "Denny McCoy and Troy Woods" continues through Nov. 2 at D. Berman Gallery, 1701 Guadalupe St., 477-8877. |
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