The artist flummoxed critics with the first New York show of this work-three sculptures and approximately seventy photographs-at Zabriskie Gallery in 1976--"The sense of artlessness is very strong"…There is "a lack of a clearly defined point of view"…"they are almost irritatingly ambiguous"--the comments applied to sculpture and photographs alike. Yet in some instances, the artist's purpose came through:"Christenberry's self-effacing fixation on his low-key material gives it an almost paradoxical monumentality."引自第25页