El Estudio Verde (After Matisse) by Andrea Muñoz Martinez of XOXO AMMO

El Estudio Verde (After Matisse)
Andrea Muñoz Martinez
Acrylic on canvas
13”h x 17”w x 1.5"d 
2025

Henri Matisse’s The Red Studio (1911) is known as a foundational work of modern art and a landmark in the centuries-long tradition of studio painting. Matisse painted his Parisian studio, then decided to paint the walls and floors over with red! Inspired by this bold move, I applied green to the walls and floor of the studio classroom in this painting. I am the maestra and those are students, learning at their easels. 

Get to Know the Austin Artist:

Andrea Muñoz Martínez is a Latinx artist who paints abstract landscapes of a re-imagined place called Borderlandia.  She was born and raised in Uvalde, TX. Martinez earned a BFA from The University of Texas at Austin and an MFA from the University of California, Davis. She is a border artist not only because she grew up in the borderlands of South Texas but also because her paintings and performance art take the border and boundaries as their subject.

I grew up in south Texas where hill country meets brush country.  It is the vitality and depth of this vast landscape that my art evokes.  Inspired by the writings of the theorist Gloria Anzaldua, who described the border as a “1,950 mile-long open wound,” I render a place I call Borderlandia.