WILLEMSTAD – The Curaçao Museum is opening a new solo exhibition today by artist Gwen Anderson titled “Connecting the Pieces,” marking the first time her work centered on the Pique Assiette technique is being showcased in Curaçao.
The exhibition focuses on the mosaic art form known as Pique Assiette, in which broken porcelain, tableware and other found materials are transformed into new artistic creations.
According to the museum, the exhibition represents a new phase in Anderson’s artistic development. Known for layered and atmospheric artworks, the artist now incorporates fragments of porcelain, glass and decorative ornaments into sculptures and mosaics exploring themes such as memory, loss, renewal and transformation.
One of the exhibition’s central works is “The Red Skull,” a sculpture created using a water buffalo skull combined with porcelain, gold leaf, glass beads and ornamental materials. The museum describes the collection as highly detailed and complex, built from objects that were once discarded or broken.
Anderson studied at the Art Students League in New York before earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in fine arts from the Sir John Cass School of Art, Architecture and Design in London. After living and working in Amsterdam and Tokyo, she returned to Curaçao in 2019, where she currently resides and continues her artistic practice.
The official opening of “Connecting the Pieces” takes place tonight, Thursday, May 21, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at The Curaçao Museum.