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Bonavista Peninsula, NL August - September 2017 "Will Gill’s Biennale work, The Green Chair, is a site-specific outdoor steel sculpture set at the ocean’s edge, allowing the free and ever-changing play of light, wind and water over and through the chair. It replicates an archetypal Newfoundland wooden chair found in virtually all rural kitchens. Because kitchens are where families and friends gather, this chair calls up memories of the comfort and pleasure of daily activities and “times”. But it also can evoke thoughts of people sitting by the window in anxious vigil, awaiting overdue sailors and fishermen. Paintings from Gill’s on-going Fires in the Desert work at the Factory Building in Port Union draw from his recent experience of two “ice deserts” during a 2014 residency aboard a three-masted barquentine out of Svalbard, Norway and an earlier voyage through the Canadian Arctic. The canvases with their soft pink organic forms play off the large crocheted sculptural works, some of them pink, of Doug Guildford, installed in the Factory’s second floor." I Dread To Think A group exhibition curated by Liz Blum Dorsky Gallery, Queens, NY September 2017
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