All The Lonely People
On March 21, 2020 I abandoned my Mexico City studio in a pandemic panic. [I had moved there three years prior from New England.] I flew to Seattle, a place unfamiliar to me, to begin a lock-down + quarantine with my sister. I was “plucked” by the fates from what I thought I was doing, and delivered to a fertile ground: loneliness and confusion.
Take-Out + Naked People
I had only one year in CDMX to study painting before my very sudden and unplanned Coming to America again. The dystopian reality of hunkering down for a pandemic was this: everything was take-out—and the rest was cancelled, except porn. According to an article I read, the internet porn industry was reaching record numbers of viewers. The comedy of this cause + effect caused a glimmer of absurd hope for humanity and my personal role in this strange new world. I can’t compare to the heroic feats of our frontline workers, but I can become a bicycle delivery-girl of nude paintings that will keep you company and feeling sexy through the darkness. And thus, Nudes By Delivery was born.
As Seen In Nat Geo?!
I set up shop in my sister’s shed with a space heater, some pastels, a laptop, and lots of coffee. I drew and drew and drew from the online figure drawing models or had Skype sessions with friends who would model for me. My breaks were plastering signs around the ghost city, posting them up on very empty telephone poles. The orders poured in. I delivered all over the city and had many sweet socially-distant moments with fans of the Nudes. Low and behold, I even struck my first appearance in National Geographic.
paint me like one of your french girls
The I became We: I was lucky enough to move back to Mexico City and invite several very special artists to join me in delivering hundreds of Nude works. We painted live models in our studio near the Historic Center of the grand metropolis and sent them sailing through the mail.
Beyond the Nude
As lockdowns began to dwindle and humans found safe ways to rendevous, we gravitated towards a new subject: la naturaleza muerta, or still life. For us, it is a natural way to reflect on the chaos, brevity, morbidity and dark comedy that follows these tragic and illuminating years. Bicycle delivery available in Mexico City, and shipping available to US + MX. We hope you enjoy processing with us <3
XOXO Nudes By Delivery
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Mimi Pinheiro
CURRENT NUDES ARTIST
Mimi Pinheiro is a New England-born, Mexico-based painter and performance artist. Lately her favorite subjects are her old, worn-out shoes and miscellaneous rotting fruits. A part of her process is photographing the decaying still lives and the models who work with Nudes By Delivery to document life and entropy in the studio. She enjoys making absurdist costumes in her free time, and you may catch her donning them in Mexico’s alleyways.
Her work can also be found under the collaborative artist ‘Fudi’, which consists of Mimi and Ramón. Follow @motel_mimi for more of her work
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Ramón Peñaloza
CURRENT NUDES ARTIST
Ramon Peñaloza is a Mexico City born-and-raised Painter who has been working in his trade for 20 years. He swings between experimental abstraction and figurative realism, but his painterly desires lay passionatley in the Nude. He works in his studio in the heart of the Historic Center of Mexico City.
He is also one part of the artist ‘Fudi’, which marks the collaborative Nudes made with Mimi.
Follow @ramon.malerei for archives of Ramon’s figurative realism, and follow @joshijo.shijo for archives of his playful abstraction.
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Toro Amillategui
PAST GUEST
Toro Amillategui is a Yucatán-born, Mexico City-based painter. His expressionist paintings play with humor and sarcasm to reveal the contradictory human. Toro’s subjects range from copulating dogs, decapitations, and Jesus Christ to the Bathing Beauty. He works with spontaneity, respecting the first brush stroke, and often uses found objects such as toilet seats, oven doors and cardboard as not-so-blank canvases for punchy expression.
Follow @toroamillategui and visit www.toroamillategui.com for Toro’s expressionist work outside of past and present work beyond the Nude.