Nemo, a 31-year-old who goes by his childhood nickname, says his style is impossible to pin down. ‘I just try to do as many different things as I can.' Courtesy photo

NAME: Nemo, 31

MEDIUM: Acrylics and house paint on canvas, cardboard tubes, chairs, doghouses and anything else he can think of.

BEST KNOWN FOR: Besides going by his childhood nickname? His experiments with style. Nemo is impossible to pin down: The series “split splats” depicts, well, abstract splits and splats in bright colors, while “essence of objects” depicts monochromatic bicycles on vivid backgrounds.

FACTOIDS: At one point, Nemo was offering one small painting every day for $10 on his MySpace page. “I did about 150. It was just to go through ideas really fast. No limitations, I just did it, whatever idea I had,” he said. “It was just to find out what other styles I had inside me. It's kind of like a sketchbook for me. The ones that sold, I would make larger paintings.”

PAYING THE BILLS: He studied architecture at San Antonio College and now does AutoCAD work (2- and 3-dimensional design and drafting).

WEB SITE: artbynemo.com

CHECK HIM OUT: His latest show, “Miss Appropriations: Stolen Materials, Borrowed Time,” is on display at San Pedro Springs Gallery, 1012 N. Flores St., through May 12. The drawings, pencil on vellum, depict women using spirals and concentric circles.
 
Jessica Belasco | 210SA contributor