Charles Pachter, Lynne Wynick, Wil Kucey and....me?

I will be participating in a panel discussion this Wednesday at the Toronto School of Art. The talk is PWYC, and open to the general public. Here is all the official info:

The Toronto School of Art presents a panel discussion on
The Value of Art: selling your work with integrity. How do you attach a dollar value to your artwork? What is the importance of context? Is there an “ art market” in Canada? How can we make it grow?
Moderated by Artist and TSA faculty member Nicole Collins, this lively discussion will feature 15-minute presentations by each panellist followed by an question and answer period and open discussion with the audience.

Location: Toronto School of Art
Date and Time: Wednesday October 11 at 7pm

Charles Pachter- Artist, Historian, Lecturer, Entrepeneur
Lynne Wynick – Co-Director of Wynick/Tuck, Artist
Will Kucey – Director -Le Gallery
Tara Bursey- Artist, TSA graduate
($5.00 donation or pay what you can)

Nicole Collins studied painting and art history at the University of Guelph, Canada receiving her BFA Honours in 1988. Collins works in encaustic, the application of molten coloured wax to, in this case, canvas.
In 1995 she co-produced a seminal painting exhibition in Toronto: MUD (catalogue), which featured the work of 20 Canadian painters and received public funding from all levels of Government and extensive press coverage. Since 1997 her work has been represented by Wynick/Tuck Gallery, Toronto www.wynicktuckgallery.ca where she has presented four solo exhibitions: Given (1998), Path (2000), one mark (2001), branch (2003) and stroke for stroke (2006). She has had solo exhibitions at the Embassy of Canada Gallery in Tokyo, Japan (2002) and at Galerie Halde, Zurich Switzerland (2004).
Collins has also participated in numerous two-person and group exhibitions including TransLinear (catalogue), a touring exhibition originating at the McMaster Art Museum, Hamilton curated by Michael Davidson and Ihor Holubizky, Platform Gallery in London, UK (2001) www.platform.co.uk
In 2000, Collins participated in the triangle artists workshop. Established in 1984 by Sir Antony Caro, triangle gathers artists from around the world to create work and exchange ideas without interruption. In 2000 the workshop took place on the 92nd floor of Tower One at the World Trade Centre in New York City.
Her work was included in a group exhibition in late 2003. She has received grants from the Canada Council, the Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council.
Collins work can be found in numerous private and public collections in Canada, USA, UK, France, Switzerland and Australia.
Charles Pachter
One of Canada's leading contemporary artists, Charles Pachter is a painter, printmaker, sculptor, designer, historian, and lecturer. He was born in Toronto and holds degrees from the University of Toronto, the Sorbonne, and the Cranbrook Academy of Art. He holds an honorary doctorate from Brock University, is a member of the Order of Canada, and a Chevalier of France's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His works hang in public and private collections around the world.
His images of the queen, moose, and maple leaf flag are pop icons of Canadian art. His paintings hang in the Toronto Stock Exchange and in the Canadian Embassy in Washington. His murals of Hockey Knights in Canada highlight a Toronto subway station. Retrospective Pachter exhibitions have toured France, Germany, and Japan. McClelland & Stewart publications include an illustrated biography on Pachter and his work, and The Journals of Susanna Moodie, his celebrated collaboration with poet Margaret Atwood.
Pachter created the painting "Side by Side" depicting a Canadian and American flag together for the Canada Loves New York rally following the events of September 11, 2001. His steel and granite moose silhouette sculptures have been installed across Canada. Two of the largest are on the University of Toronto campus. In August 2001, he was Artist in Residence at the International Symposium of Contemporary Painting in Baie-Saint-Paul, Québec.
Mr. Pachter lives and works beside historic Grange Park in downtown Toronto in a new residence and studio designed by prominent Canadian architect Steven Teeple. His work is on permanent display at his adjoining Moose Factory Gallery. In summer he paints in a waterfront studio converted from a former ice storage depot on Lake Simcoe.
Lynne Wynick, AOCAD
In 1968 Lynne Wynick founded, with David Tuck, Wynick/Tuck Gallery (then known as Aggregation Gallery) in a storefront location at 71 Jarvis Street, doubling their size the following year at 73 Jarvis Street. Over the last thirty years Wynick/Tuck has renovated and occupied several several locations in the downtown Toronto. In 2000, they renovated and moved to the 401 Richmond Street location in 2000, taking advantage of the ground floor location and street presence.
Since 1968 Wynick/Tuck has maintained a commercial gallery, programmed 10 – 15 exhibitions a year, represented and promoted, primarily, contemporary Canadian artists and placed their work in many public and private collections in Canada and abroad. We have curated many thematic exhibitions and have participated in international art fairs in Germany, Spain, the United States and Canada.
Lynne has served on a number of arts boards, including the Canadian Cultural Property and Export Review Board, The Power Plant, Toronto and currently she is the chair of the advisory board of the Doris McCarthy Gallery at UTSC, Scarborough and have served on many arts juries. Lynne has also maintained a studio practice since 1968.
Wil Kucey is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design with a B.F.A. in Criticism and Curatorial Practice. At 21, Kucey became the director/curator and owner of LE., a gallery focusing on the exposure and promotion of emerging artists in critical contemporary practice. Wil also sits on committees at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art and Casey House. By focusing on strengthening the careers of emerging artists and participating critically in the Toronto art scene le. and Kucey have forged a path of professional representation for artists yet to break into the commercial market. In it's first three years, le has garnered a solid reputation for itself and it's artists with reviews locally, nationally, and internationally as well as inclusion in exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA), in New York, and Los Angeles
Kucey has received numerous awards for his commitment to curatorial practice including, upon graduation this past year, the Criticism and Curatorial Practice medal from OCAD.
Tara Bursey is a recent graduate of the Toronto School of Art’s diploma program, and a former student at Ontario College of Art and Design. An artist whose practice encompasses sculpture and installation as well as drawing and printmaking, Tara’s work is characterized by its ethereal quality, and an often obsessive use of repetition, pattern and delicate sculptural materials such as eggshells, garlic skin, found garments and paper. During her studies at the Toronto School of Art, Tara was the recipient of TSA’s Barbara Barrett Scholarship (2004) and Matthew David Stein Scholarship (2005). In the past two years, she has exhibited extensively throughout the city in such diverse venues as Open Studio, MOCCA, Eastern Front Gallery, Fly Gallery, and Propeller Centre for the Arts. Tara’s most recent projects include an artist’s talk entitled “Zines: A Short History of the Underground Publication” and a solo exhibition, White Wash, which employed both found, fabricated and altered institutional garments as a means of addressing the constructive/destructive nature of systems. In addition to her work as a fine artist, Tara also operates actively within Toronto’s independent music and small-press communities as a DJ, illustrator, designer and writer. She was born and raised in Toronto, Canada.