
Piñata Pieces
acrylic and plaster on canvas with digital collage, 36x96, 2025
This piece explores nostalgic symbols as a clustered representation of the artists multi-racial identity. The shapes gather together in a time capsule of cultural heritage and exploration. Only a few of the shapes represent historically categorized ancestral symbols. The shapes that are abstracted depict the unknown or uncertainty in ancestry, a refection of the erasure of culture through assimilation. By exploring new shapes, Morgan DeVillier embraces the unknown to reshape their sense of self and identity as a person with diverse and unknown ancestry and culture. The white spaces emphasize the notion of erasure and the self history of disconnection from cultural practices, creating a sense of emptiness and tension within the piece. The represented symbols and shapes clustered and unorganized over a white plaster de paris can be viewed as the childlike nature of discovery, like drawing on white walls.


Piñata Pieces 2, 24x36, acrylic and plaster on canvas, 2025
Piñata Pieces 1, 24x36, acrylic and plaster on canvas, 2025