Artist Jeff Wall will give a lecture as pat of Grad Art Seminar series; topics will include blending artifice and actuality, and how cinema has influenced his work.

Since the 1990s, Wall has become best known for his large-scale, single-image, color panoramic transparencies mounted in light boxes, a presentation strategy that gives each piece a heft and allure at once sculptural and cinematic.

Wall's work includes opaque black-and-white prints set in Los Angeles: Citizen (1996), a man lying on the lawn in a public park; 8056 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles (1996), a cinema-turned-synagogue, framed in a circular black vignette; and Office Hallway, Spring Street, Los Angeles (1997), a man in a dimly lit, nondescript hallway.

The artist was the subject of a major retrospective in 2007, organized by MoMA, SFMOMA and the Art Institute of Chicago.