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Jeffrey (Jeff) David Wall, artist (b at Vancouver 29 Sept 1946). Known for his large-scale back-lit cibachrome photographs, his theoretical writing and for his teaching, Jeff Wall received an MA from the University of British Columbia in 1970 (thesis on John Heartfield) and did postgraduate work at the Courtauld Institute (1970-73). He was assistant professor at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (1974-75); associate professor at Simon Fraser University (1976-87); and is currently professor at the University of British Columbia.
Jeff Wall is the best-known of a group of Vancouver artists including Ian WALLACE, Rodney GRAHAM and others who have associated together since the late 1960s. After experimentation with conceptual art while a graduate student at UBC, Wall produced no art until 1977, when he produced his first back-lit photo-transparency. The pictures are staged and refer to the history of art and philosophical problems of representation. Wall's strategy has been to recover modernist imperatives to rescue society from what he came to consider the dead end of conceptualism. His central place in international contemporary art was established shortly thereafter when he appeared in a main European exhibition Westkunst: Zeitgenössische Kunst seit (1939) curated by an old NSCAAD colleague, Kaspar König. Wall's work is underpinned by the considerable body of his own theoretical writing that advances an argument for the necessity of a pictorial art. Much of the work pictures social tension, cities with changing demographics, intersections, suburbs and dead zones. Other work is much more enigmatic, fantastic and seemingly personal. Wall's photographs are complicated productions involving cast, sets and crews as well as digital and computer postshoot manipulation. They have been characterized as one-frame cinematic productions rather than photographs in the ordinary sense. They address the history of painting more than the history of photography. Wall has appeared in numerous international exhibitions and was given a retrospective at the VANCOUVER ART GALLERY in 1990. He is represented by galleries in New York and Cologne.
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