From John Ashbery's review of Christopher Knowles' show at Holly Solomon Gallery which appeared in New York Magazine September 18, 1978:

"…Christopher Knowles … at the age of nineteen, without exactly meaning to, has become a major figure of the New York avant-garde… Christopher's unusual history is now wellknown. To summarize: He was considered an autistic child and was attending a special school upstate when a mutual friend of dramaturge-thaumaturge Robert Wilson and Christopher's parents heard a tape of Christopher reciting his poetry. He played it for Wilson, who immediately brought Christopher here to be in his 1973 dream-play, The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin. His last-minute appearance was a complete surprise to the other cast members in that twelve-hour spectacular. Cindy Lubar, the remarkable young actress who spoke the prologue from a corner of the orchestra pit, says she was suddenly aware that there were two people on the stage in a section that was supposed to be acted by Wilson himself. The other figure was Christopher, whose long dialogue with Wilson, sounding rather like Gertrude stein delivered with the passion of a Wagnerian recitative, was one of the most memorable things about the whole memorable evening — or night, rather…. Christopher has the ability to conceive of his works in minute detail before executing them. There is nothing accidental in the typed designs and word lists; they fill their preordained places as accurately as though they had spilled out of a computer. This pure conceptualism, which others have merely approximated using mechanical aids, is one reason that so many young artists have been drawn to Christopher's work."