EXHIBITION TEXT BY NICOLAS CALAS, MARIAN GOODMAN GALLERY, NY, NY., DECEMBER 1980

Christopher Sproat says that for him “furniture is a depository for associations and meanings, a devise which evokes presence and absence in an architectural world.”  To the diagonals of Artschwager he opposes an outward thrust tending to catapult the rooms occupants into the world of action.  In a series of furniture silhouettes painted or built against the wall, Sproat projects a panorama of an interior that is to art today what wall paintings of interiors were for villas of Pompeii.