Monarca Orgullosa/Proud Monarch by Andrea Muñoz Martinez of XOXO AMMO

Monarca Orgullosa/Proud Monarch
Andrea Muñoz Martinez
Acrylic on canvas
6”h x 4”w x 1.5"d 
2025

The Monarca is a beautiful reminder that migration is beautiful. Her wings are painted in a proud pose—held back—symbolizing her strength as a symbol of migrants across the world. The chispas/sparks form a radial pattern that represents the energy released whenever a border is crossed, created, or destroyed.The chispas pattern is painted around the sides of the canvas.

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.