Chispas Over Stripes In Borderlandia by Andrea Muñoz Martinez of XOXO AMMO

Chispas Over Stripes In Borderlandia
Andrea Muñoz Martinez
Acrylic on board
13”h x 11”w -  Framed
2025

Andrea Muñoz Martínez is a Latina artist who paints abstract landscapes of the US-Mexico borderland, draws portraits, and makes interactive performance art. She was born and raised in Uvalde, Texas and graduated with a BFA from The University of Texas at Austin and an MFA at UC Davis.  Of her exhibition “Dogs Heal in Borderlandia” the Austin Chronicle wrote, “For Martinez, these abstractions are not only a way for her to depict the land she calls home, but to take a space often characterized as dangerous and dark and infuse it with bright hues of joy and hope…Borderlandia, then, is a place of warmth and affection, tradition and devotion – and the dogs are part of that.”  She gives public talks about art and art making to university students and public audiences and teaches painting and photography at the Dougherty Arts Center. She is a gallery assistant at Art For The People Gallery.

Get to Know the Austin Artist:
I am a Latina/ Chicana artist born in Uvalde, TX. My landscapes, portraits, photographs and performance art render a re-imagined Nepantla, called Borderlandia. I moved to Austin in 2005 and received my BFA from U.T. After I earned my MFA at UCDavis, I moved back to Austin to make and teach art. I teach painting at the Dougherty Arts Center. And I’m a gallery assistant at Art For The People Gallery. Visit me at the gallery every Sunday, Tuesday and Second Saturday!