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BILLY APPLE®: RAINBOWS 1965

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18 May - 27 July 2022
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BILLY APPLE®, RAINBOWS 1965

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.

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Works
  • BILLY APPLE 360º Rainbow, 1964–65 Six circular glass tubing pumped with argon/neon gas, chrome-plated steel T-stands, porcelain-enamel coated steel base 50.8 x 73 x 73 cm 20 x 28 3/4 x 28 3/4 inches
    BILLY APPLE
    360º Rainbow, 1964–65
    Six circular glass tubing pumped with argon/neon gas, chrome-plated steel T-stands, porcelain-enamel coated steel base
    50.8 x 73 x 73 cm
    20 x 28 3/4 x 28 3/4 inches
  • BILLY APPLE Rainbow 8, 1964–65 Eight-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 APPLE
    Rainbow 8, 1964–65
    Eight-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 APPLE Rainbow with Waterfall, 1965 Clear and eight-colour translucent plexiglass 45 x 53 x 48.5 cm 17 3/4 x 20 7/8 x 19 1/8 inches
    BILLY APPLE
    Rainbow with Waterfall, 1965
    Clear and eight-colour translucent plexiglass
    45 x 53 x 48.5 cm
    17 3/4 x 20 7/8 x 19 1/8 inches
  • BILLY APPLE Rainbow Waterfall, 1965 Six-colour translucent plexiglass 42.5 x 22.5 x 16.3 cm 16 3/4 x 8 7/8 x 6 3/8 inches
    BILLY APPLE
    Rainbow Waterfall, 1965
    Six-colour translucent plexiglass
    42.5 x 22.5 x 16.3 cm
    16 3/4 x 8 7/8 x 6 3/8 inches
  • BILLY APPLE Rainbow, 1965 Six-colour solid plexiglass 19.3 x 76 x 13.2 cm 7 5/8 x 29 7/8 x 5 1/4 inches
    BILLY APPLE
    Rainbow, 1965
    Six-colour solid plexiglass
    19.3 x 76 x 13.2 cm
    7 5/8 x 29 7/8 x 5 1/4 inches
  • BILLY APPLE Rainbow (Semicircle), 1965 Seven-colour serigraph, fluorescent ink on paper 63.3 x 127 cm 24 7/8 x 50 inches
    BILLY APPLE
    Rainbow (Semicircle), 1965
    Seven-colour serigraph, fluorescent ink on paper
    63.3 x 127 cm
    24 7/8 x 50 inches
  • BILLY APPLE Rainbow (Left), 1965 Seven-colour serigraph, fluorescent ink on paper 60.3 x 50.7 cm 23 3/4 x 20 inches
    BILLY APPLE
    Rainbow (Left), 1965
    Seven-colour serigraph, fluorescent ink on paper
    60.3 x 50.7 cm
    23 3/4 x 20 inches
  • BILLY APPLE Rainbow (Center), 1965 Seven-colour serigraph, fluorescent ink on paper 63.3 x 21 cm 24 7/8 x 8 1/4 inches
    BILLY APPLE
    Rainbow (Center), 1965
    Seven-colour serigraph, fluorescent ink on paper
    63.3 x 21 cm
    24 7/8 x 8 1/4 inches
  • BILLY APPLE Rainbow (Right), 1965 Seven-colour serigraph, fluorescent ink on paper 60.3 x 50.7 cm 23 3/4 x 20 inches
    BILLY APPLE
    Rainbow (Right), 1965
    Seven-colour serigraph, fluorescent ink on paper
    60.3 x 50.7 cm
    23 3/4 x 20 inches
  • BILLY APPLE Billy Apple Bianchini Gallery 50 West 57 Street New York City Nov.23–Dec.14, 1965 (right), 1965 Printed poster, offset lithography on paper 55.2 x 35.4 cm 21 3/4 x 14 inches
    BILLY APPLE
    Billy Apple Bianchini Gallery 50 West 57 Street New York City Nov.23–Dec.14, 1965 (right), 1965
    Printed poster, offset lithography on paper
    55.2 x 35.4 cm
    21 3/4 x 14 inches
  • BILLY APPLE Billy Apple Bianchini Gallery 50 West 57 Street New York City Nov.23–Dec.14, 1965 (left), 1965 Printed poster, offset lithography on paper 55.2 x 35.4 cm 21 3/4 x 14 inches
    BILLY APPLE
    Billy Apple Bianchini Gallery 50 West 57 Street New York City Nov.23–Dec.14, 1965 (left), 1965
    Printed poster, offset lithography on paper
    55.2 x 35.4 cm
    21 3/4 x 14 inches
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  • BILLY APPLE®

    BILLY APPLE®

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Events
  • EXPERIMENTS IN LIGHT

    EXPERIMENTS IN LIGHT

    BILLY APPLE® AND LIGHT ART IN THE MID 60s 24 May 2022
    ALEX BACON, CHRISTINA BARTON AND MARY APPLE IN CONVERSATION Alex Bacon is an art historian based in London and New York City who is also active as a critic, curator, and publisher. He is co-founder of Circle Books and, until recently, was a Curatorial Associate at the Princeton University Art Museum. Among his publications Bacon is co-editor, with Hal Foster, of a collection of essays on Richard Hamilton (MIT Press, 2010), as well as the author of texts in various exhibition catalogs and edited volumes. He is currently completing his...
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