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...sculptures, at the Delahunty galleries in SoHo and TriBeCa (through April 14) may not be as complex and many-layered as Graves', but they have their own peculiar intensity about the stuff of the natural world - in his case, wood. Surls, 40, a muscular farm dweller from Splendora, Texas, who is sometimes mistaken for Willie Nelson, works with whole branches and roots, artfully pegged and jointed together so that their knotty, straight-from-the-ground appearance is kept even as they turn into parodies of the human figure. It is like the folksy sensibility that pops two eyes...
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