MUSEUM OF MODERN ART PRESENTS ‘JEFF WALL’ RETROSPECTIVE FEB. 25

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NEW YORK CITY — The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) presents “Jeff Wall,” on view February 25–May 14 in the Joan and Preston Robert Tisch Gallery, sixth floor.

Jeff Wall (Canadian, b 1946) principally works in the distinctive medium of large color photographs presented as transparencies in light boxes. His unique pictorial universe ranges from gritty realism to elaborate fantasy, drawing upon an unusually broad range of sources, including Nineteenth Century painting, conceptual art, narrative cinema and Modernist photography.

This major retrospective comprises 41 works that span Wall’s career from 1978 to the present. It presents a robust assembly of ambitious and celebrated pictures, including “Picture for Women,” 1979; Mimic,” 1982; The Storyteller,” 1986; “A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai),” 1993; “Restoration,” 1993; and after “Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison, the “Prologue,” 1999–2000.

Four recent pictures will be shown for the first time in North America, including a large multi-figure composition, “In front of a nightclub,” 2006. Following its New York showing, the exhibition will travel to the Art Institute of Chicago June 30–September 23 and concludes its tour at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art October 27– 2007–January 6.

The exhibition is organized by The Museum of Modern Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. MoMA is at 11 West 53rd Street. For information, 212-708-9400 or www.moma.org.