Billy Apple

Billy Apple

Born Barrie Bates [Tilman Osterwold, "Pop Art", Taschen, 2003, p78. ISBN 3822820709] in Auckland (New Zealand) in 1935, Billy Apple is an artist whose work is associated with the New York school of Pop Art in the 1960s and with the Conceptual Art movement in the 1970s. He collaborated with the likes of Andy Warhol and other pop artists. His work is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (New Zealand), Auckland Art Gallery / Toi o Tamaki (New Zealand), the Christchurch Art Gallery / Te Puna o Waiwhetu (New Zealand) and the SMAK/Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (Ghent, Belgium).

In 1959 he left New Zealand on a National Art Gallery scholarship. He studied at the Royal College of Art, London, from 1959 until 1962. In 1962 he changed his name to Billy Apple. He moved to New York in 1964.

A pivotal event was the 1964 exhibit "The American Supermarket", a show held in Paul Bianchini's Upper East Side gallery. The show was presented as a typical small supermarket environment, except that everything in it — the produce, canned goods, meat, posters on the wall, etc. — was created by six prominent pop artists of the time, including Billy Apple, Andy Warhol, Mary Inman, and Robert Watts. The exhibit was one of the first mass events that directly confronted the general public with both Pop Art and the perennial question of what is art.

He was one of the artists who pioneered the use of neon in art works.cite web |url= http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,941980,00.html |title= A Times Square of the Mind |author= |work= TIME |date= March 18 1966 |quote= ]

In 1969 he established Apple, one of the first alternative spaces in New York at 161 West Twenty-third Street in order, as he stated, "to provide an independent and experimental alternative space for the presentation of [his] own work and the work of others." Inititially the exhibition space was part of his own studio. During its four years he intermittingly exhibited his own work and work by other artists including Geoff Hendricks, Mac Adams, Davi Det Hompson, and Jerry Vis. The space was considered both an exhibition space and a forum for art and discourse.

In the 1970s, Billy Apple returned to New Zealand twice, with support from the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council, each time exhibiting in spaces throughout the country. He returned to New Zealand, permanently in 1990. Billy Apple currently lives in Auckland. In 2008 he was the subject of a feature length documentary called "Being Billy Apple". Produced by Spacific Films and directed by award winning filmmaker, Leanne Pooley, the documentary tells the story of Billy Apple's life from his POP period through his involvement with the conceptual art movement in New York during the 1970s to his current "horticultural/art" Apple endeavors.

References

ee also

* Conceptual art

External links

* [http://www.billyapple.com/ Official Website] (lists only his contact information)
* [http://www.fernergalleries.co.nz/default,548.sm Ferner Galleries] Represents Billy Apple
* [http://www.hamishmckaygallery.com/artist_home.php?artist=Billy%20Apple/ Hamish McKay Gallery] (Wellington, NZ) Represents Billy Apple
* [http://www.suecrockford.com/artists/images.asp?aid=39 Sue Crockford Gallery] (Auckland, NZ) Represents Billy Apple
* [http://www.tepapa.govt.nz// Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Te Papa)] (Wellington, NZ) features Billy Apple in its permanent collection
* http://www.spacific.co.nz/documentaries/being_billy_apple.htm Spacific Films] Documentary about Billy Apple

Works include [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/objectdetails.aspx?oid=512434&coltype=art&regno=2001-0001-2 "Apples, 2 for 25c" by Billy Apple, offset lithograph, aluminium and printed plastic on canvas, 1962-64]

* [http://www.aucklandartgallery.govt.nz// Auckland Art Gallery / Toi o Tamaki] (Auckland, NZ) features Billy Apple in its permanent collection
* [http://www.christchurchartgallery.org.nz// Christchurch Art Gallery / Te Puna o Waiwhetu] (Christchurch, NZ) features Billy Apple in its permanent collection
* [http://www.smak.be/index.php?la=en&id=&i=0&t=&tid=&y=&l=a&kunstenaar_id=&kunstwerk_id=/ SMAK / Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst] (Gent, Belgium) features Billy Apple in its permanent collection
* [http://krconnect.blogspot.com/2007/04/billy-apple.html KR Konnect] Billy Apple collector Kevin Roberts' blog


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