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. Her work can be found in two public collections at the Center for the Study of the Southwest at Texas State University and at Texas Municipal Retirement System. Her work was featured in San Antonio Review, Almost Real Things and Austin Monthly. 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. Connect with her online at www.xoxoammo.com and on Instagram @xoxoammo
Andrea Muñoz Martinez walks in front of her MFA Thesis work: “Borderlandia.” Borderlandia, Triptych, 2013, oil on canvas, 86 x 219 in., private collection
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.