Blogs About NEMO

Check out some recent blogs written about yours truly:


Another Great Idea by Lisa Call
Art By Nemo by Superbadfriend
Love Them Labels by The Wine Whore

You Can Still Find Me In Texas

Since moving to Denver I have dropped a few galleries and a few went out of business, but if your in Texas and still want to see my work here’s a nice little list of were I am. I hope to be adding a lot more Colorado Galleries to it real soon.

San Antonio
Inter Artisan
San Pedro Springs Gallery
Village Gallery in La Villita
Darryl Mix @ 210 452-0386 a private art dealer with hard to find “NEMO” acrylic paintings

Austin
El Teller

Wimberley
Gallery On The Square

Waring
Guadalupe Crossing Market

Salado
Ing‘s

Press Release: One Man’s Pencil is Another Man’s Muse

1600 Glenarm Place #2112 Denver, CO 80202 www.artbynemo.com

PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Hannah Dreiss: 210.835.6298

Event: Art Reception for New Denver Artist, Nemo
Date: Saturday August 8th 7pm – 10pm
Location: Vain Salon, 1890 Pennsylvania, Denver, CO 80203

Sponsor: Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer

One Man’s Pencil is Another Man’s Muse

American pencil artist, Nemo, is having a one man show at Vain Salon located at 1890 Pennsylvania in Denver, CO. Vain Salon will host an artist reception from 7pm – 10pm on Saturday August 8th 2009.

San Antonio, Texas’ very own artistic phenomenon, Nemo, will premiere his dynamic spectrum of art pieces inspired by haute couture fashion, classic tattoos, furry friends, and cute creepy crawlies. His trademark pencil on vellum will captivate viewers with its deceiving simplicity and dizzying complication. Flowing images of beautiful women are punctuated by Nemo's amazingly perfect freehand circles. Images of beauty and vivacity explode in pattern and color that will lure the eye. His signature swirling spirals mirror the seductive curves of his bold feminine subjects, and define the features of his intricate natural subjects. Each piece of artwork incorporates an accent of colored pencil—sometimes subtle, sometimes vivid—which serves to further enliven Nemo's already inspiring and masterful work.

Guests are encouraged to arrive in fashion. The show promises to be a multiform rainbow of graphite allure. The event will be hosted by the fabulous Vain Salon, featuring beer provided by PBR and Jell-O shots served by wickedly cute models sporting the most outrageous coiffures. Tunes supplied by DJ AKA Surfer. What better showcase of beauty, style and allure could one wish for? Be there, or be square.

For more information about Nemo and his art, please contact Hannah Dreiss, at 210.835.6298 or info@artbynemo.com. For more information about Vain Salon, please contact Tina Mckeever at (720) 596-4511 or tina@vainsalon.com.

Three sample images are included with this press release. If you would like high-res images for your publication, please e-mail info@artbynemo.com.

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Rock Bottom

Located at the first floor in what use to be the “Prudential Building”, who’s slogan everybody knows as “get a piece of the rock”, is where Rock Bottom was started. I think the best part about the place is how the name came about.

Now Prudential is gone the rock lives on.


We were the first ones to show up, nasty habit of showing up an hour too soon for most things, but they were ready for us. We were shown to a room in the back and were told we could walk around the place and do anything, plus I was given a beer, so who could argue with that.


Everyone was so friendly and happy to help or do what ever it took to make us happy, with as many smiles and nods as great food and great beer how could this place be bad right?


We all started out with a German style ale called Bottoms Up Kolsch, which was light and tasted great. Then came out the food, the Titan Toothpicks with homemade guacamole and fresh salsa put me in the right mood to eat drink and be merry.

The asiago cheese dip was next up, which I didn’t think I was going to like it but turned out to be one of the best things we had.

I’m not much for salads but the Tuscan chicken salad was pretty good and was paired up with a nice 16th Street Wheat beer.

The sesame crusted salmon was next and this is where the eating came in, oh and the onion rings were very good. Along with the salmon we drank a beer called Happy Pills which had a cool label with a happy face on it.

Then the bourbonzola burger which had a Jim Beam glaze and was paired up with a Deep Drought stout.

Mmmm then my favorite smoked salmon fish and chips, I can see my self going back for this one real soon, maybe Friday. This one hit me right where I needed hitting and was paired up with a Red Rocks Irish Red ale, which was the beer I was drinking to start everything off with.

Grilled ahi tuna and Saison Belgian ale was up next and what do you know the the people from Belgium approved of it, so I knew it had to be good and it was. Oh and the lemon rice was really good, too.

Ok so everything was working up to the overnight braised short rib and the brewmasters only baby Molly Brown, what a pairing this was, the ribs were so good and so was the beer, I even got to take a bottle of it home with me, which I will be drinking later today.

The mini brownie was paired up with a rootbeer float and the rootbeer was made in house too, is there anything these guys cant cook up?

For those of you looking for the bar area its in the back, pool tables and all. So take your pick of the bar up front or the bar in the back, they are both great, you can even sit out front and watch all the crazy action on 16th street mall

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Be sure to pick up your Mug Club card and when you vist 120 times they put your on a plaque on the wall .

Did I mention the free pencils with the words "You haven't hit Denver until you've hit ROCK BOTTOM!" on them, this pencil artist picked up 7 of them.

Blossoming

Here’s a cool one that just kind of happened, and happened pretty quick too. Again I was on “twitter” (this is another one for people who think twitter is a waste of time) and I read a post about a family here in Colorado who were having a hard time, their house needed work, the wife was self employed and not making a lot of money and the husband had just had a stoke. One of their good friends was on twitter and wanted to raise some money for them and asked if any one wanted to donate something. I had a few older pieces that I didn’t know what to do with so I donated them.

The lady who came to pick them up liked them so much that she showed another lady who was just about to open up a shop in a really cool neighborhood about 30 minutes or so away from Denver in Westminster. So she e-mails me and I call her back and we talk for about an hour. I like her, she likes me and I’m in.

The place is called “Blossoming Artshop” and is located in a very nice looking building in Bradburn Village. Hannah and I went to a little get together at the owners house and I gotta tell you her and her husband are really nice and everyone involved is really great. This is the first time one of my gallery owners have had a party for all the artists. I feel like this place is going to work. Oh and she even bought a piece of my art (which makes that the first piece to sell in Colorado).

So my friends, twitter works but you gotta play the game. Get on and chat it up with everyone who will chat back and unfollow those who don’t. Its just like going to a party and you are trying to talk to as many people as you can, say hi and see what happens. Oh and please don’t just post links to your site or tell people to buy your art. Is anyone already on there? Tell me so I can follow you.

Blossoming opened on July 4th and we celebrated by drinking prosecco at 10 in the morning, good times. The first show is a semi-private one on July 18th and I want all of you who are around to come out and have some fun with us.

16th Street Mall

A land of wonder and amazement await on 16th street mall, it’s a mile long tiled street with more shops and stores, restaurants and vendors, street performers and bums then you can shake a stick at, all the cool kids go there and loads of tourist pass though every year.

One day we were walking back from dinner and I noticed a guy selling his art in the middle of 16th, so we go over and I ask him “How?” he said he just filled out the paper work and was on a waiting list for 9 months or something crazy like that. He told me he could e-mail me all the forms and help me though it, then he said something I liked even better, “you can hang your art on one side for 10 bucks a day” (20 on the weekend).

Well I took him up on it, I got to tell you, to me it seemed like a great idea. However, even though there’s literally thousands of people walking by they are somewhat trained to pay no attention to all the people looking for hand outs or selling crap or greenpace telling them how bad they are for not stopping and signing up with them. So its really hard to get people to come over and see what you got. My problem was that when they did come over they didn’t want to spend a lot of money, a lot of them were buying $15 pieces that the other guy had and my lowest piece was $60. So I tried it twice, once on a Tuesday and once on a Sunday. Even though more people are walking about on the weekdays, more people were coming over and talking on the weekends. But no one was buying, even though I met a lot of people from out of town and they really seemed to like my work and went on and on about it, no sales were made.

I feel that people who take the time to come over and see what we had didn’t want to spend $145 on an art piece and my prices are set in stone and can only go up, not down. It would take too much time any way from my real art to come up with something fast and cheap to sell, so I just gave up, I got real shows coming up anyway.

Renton Western Wear

I just got my new Cowboy Hat in the mail.

This has got to be one of the finest hats I have ever owned. I was told by a friend that he didn’t even know they made black straw hats. Well you can find them at Renton Western Wear .

I was chatting it up with some cowboy friends of mine the other day about cowboy hat rules and did some research on some websites the more techy cowboys sent me. I learned a lot off this one site and I gotta tell you I am proud to own such a hat as the cowboy hat.

I go out walking as many times as I can in the morning and my baseball cap just couldn’t keep the sun out of my eyes and off my neck as well as the brim on this hat does. Also I get tons of compliments on my hat and who doesn’t love compliments?

Renton Western Wear is located on 724 South Third Street, Renton, WA 98057 but has one of the best online services out there, so check em out online and get em shipped right to your door.

Be sure to join their mailing list to take full advantage of all there sales and discounts, also follow them on Twitter and on FaceBook to see all sorts of cool stuff like pictures and videos and if you talk to Jerry Kavesh tell him NEMO sent you and he'll take good care of ya.

Fat Sullys

Well folks the great people of the Denver Taste Casting really did good on this one (thank you Kyle). Now I have been to NYC, but I never really knew pizza was a big thing there since I was all about the art and I have eaten some pizza and I have eaten some really good pizza, or so I thought.

Fat Sullys‘ NY Pizzais great place on 3237 E. Colfax near Adams in a really nice brick building in the Atomic Cowboy Bar which looks like one hell of a place to party. They have tables and stools outside which gives you a great view of the “Bluebird Beat District“ and its people. Once you walk in and the smell of pizza hits you and the good ole bar feel makes you want a drink. There’s a drink special every night and on Wednesdays they have 4 buck goat vodka and jackalope gin, I don’t know what that is but it sounds great. I stuck to the happy hour which was ½ off beer.

The best New York Style Pizza in all of Denver, maybe even some parts of New York, came out and was put in front of us to take in, mmmmm I can still smell it now. We ate from 4 pies, a basic cheese pizza, what was called the “white” pie, one for the meat lovers, and one hell of a Hawaiian pizza.

Of course me being the meat eater that I am loved the last two since that’s where the meat was.

But the crust on all of them was prefect.

Then came out the Nutella calzone, this was so good, if you only go there to pick one of these up that would be fine by me but you have to call me up so I can help you with it.

Oh and they deliver to just about any where so call them and see how you can get yours (303.333.4440)

Now I don’t know what “gluten free” means, and I can openly admit there’s a lot of stuff I don’t know, but they have one of the only Gluten Free Pizzas which is not made from a frozen crust in Denver, maybe even the world. So to all my no gluten eating friends rejoice and eat pizza and enjoy life again. We have been waiting for you.

Even though the food was great and the beer was cold, there was something even better that I myself have never seen anywhere. They had all kinds of board games there and Hannah and I are going to have to go back for a slice and a beer and to play some of those games.

There were also 2 pool tables and darts boards and even a pinball machine which I wanted to play but didn’t, I will real soon.

This has got to be one of the best pizza joints I have never been to, great location, tons of fun and some of the coolest (and good looking) people I have never met. So come and bring all your friends play a game of Candy Land, enjoy a cold beer and taste some of the best New York Pizza this side of New York and save me a slice cuz I’m hungry now.