Auction - Help Roger Licot
Market Street Gallery, MesArt and friends have decided to help Roger Licot
cope with the financial burden of medical and living expenses by organizing
an art auction. All collected money will go to Roger Licot.
Silent bidding will be held on Thursday, August 31st, 2006
6 PM - 9.30 PM
Market Street Gallery
1554 Market Street,
San Francisco, CA 94102
Roger Licot is a Belgian artist and a long time San Francisco resident who
has recently been diagnosed with terminal bone cancer.
Artists are invited to donate their artworks for the auction to produce this
event. We welcome your generosity and any kind of help and donations.
For further information, please contact Ronald Newman, gallery director, at 415-290-1441 or email us exhibition@mesart.com
About the artist.
Born in Belgium (Brussels) 1953, Roger left Europe at the age of 20 and moved to New York. Although he is best known for his amazing photo-realistic and highly erotic paintings of women, he spent many years working as a
freelance cartoonist in New York publishing his work in major US magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Playboy and more. He moved to San Francisco in the 80s and worked in the advertising field for many years, creating many illustrations for the San Francisco Chronicle.
Around the same time Roger decided to direct his attention toward fine arts and replace the ink and paper with acrylics and canvas. Since then he has been offering a view to the female body in a sexy, erotic, and
unforgettable way. A meticulous, passionate and spiritual artist, Roger is said to found photorealism as a way of meditation by immersing himself in the work. His paintings are a heightened stimulation of the mind and body, a unique, spiritual, and mind-blowing experience. "There is more eroticism in the glimpse of an exposed knee or a revealed thigh than in a pair of opened legs."
Roger Licot, a contemporary self-taught artist, has dedicated most of
his life to illustrate his point. To view samples of his art work, please
visit: www.mesart.com/rogerlicot and www.rogerlicot.com