Billy Apple®: RAINBOWS 1965
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Billy AppleRainbow 8, 1964–65Eight-coloured 12 mm glass tubing pumped with argon/neon gas, porcelain-enamel coated steel base.48.5 x 32 x 46 cm
19 1/8 x 12 5/8 x 18 1/8 inches -
Billy AppleRainbow with Waterfall, 1965Clear and eight-colour translucent plexiglass45 x 53 x 48.5 cm
17 3/4 x 20 7/8 x 19 1/8 inches -
Billy AppleRainbow Waterfall, 1965Six-colour translucent plexiglass42.5 x 22.5 x 16.3 cm
16 3/4 x 8 7/8 x 6 3/8 inches -
Billy AppleRainbow, 1965Six-colour solid plexiglass19.3 x 76 x 13.2 cm
7 5/8 x 29 7/8 x 5 1/4 inches -
Billy AppleRainbow (Semicircle), 1965Seven-colour serigraph, fluorescent ink on paper63.3 x 127 cm
24 7/8 x 50 inches -
Billy AppleRainbow (Left), 1965Seven-colour serigraph, fluorescent ink on paper60.3 x 50.7 cm
23 3/4 x 20 inches -
Billy AppleRainbow (Center), 1965Seven-colour serigraph, fluorescent ink on paper63.3 x 21 cm
24 7/8 x 8 1/4 inches -
Billy AppleRainbow (Right), 1965Seven-colour serigraph, fluorescent ink on paper60.3 x 50.7 cm
23 3/4 x 20 inches -
Billy AppleBilly Apple Bianchini Gallery 50 West 57 Street New York City Nov.23–Dec.14, 1965 (right), 1965Printed poster, offset lithography on paper55.2 x 35.4 cm
21 3/4 x 14 inches -
Billy AppleBilly Apple Bianchini Gallery 50 West 57 Street New York City Nov.23–Dec.14, 1965 (left), 1965Printed poster, offset lithography on paper55.2 x 35.4 cm
21 3/4 x 14 inches
The Mayor Gallery is pleased to announce our forthcoming exhibition Rainbows 1965 by Billy Apple®. A re-staging of Apple's ground-breaking solo exhibition first shown at Bianchini Gallery in New York City, 1965 and credited with being one of the first to treat electric light as a new sculptural medium, a move that was then beginning to galvanise a range of artists working in the USA and Europe. Taking the rainbow as its central motif, this show proved Apple’s attraction to new products and advancing technologies, and his fascination for the science of colour and light.
Working extensivally with the artist’s wife, Mary Apple, to prepare the surviving works still in the artist’s possession, The Mayor Gallery will feature four original neon sculptures, a rare semi-circular Rainbow print, and three Plexiglas objects, the exhibition will be the first time Apple’s Rainbows have been presented together since 1965.
