#mike bidlo

[gregdotorg]

In 2005 Mike Bidlo made sixteen intricate replicas of Willem de Kooning drawings of women, and then erased them to make sixteen replicas of Robert Rauschenberg's Erased de Kooning Drawing.

[theworstt]

“This photograph is quite fun,” I say. “Was it staged?”

“Yes, this was for a Swiss art magazine that did a story on the East Village,” Andreas replies. “I knew Gracie already at the time — we were friends. She dressed up in this Mike Bidlo Jackson Pollock dress, and the necklace she’s wearing I believe is a Rhonda Zwillinger piece,” he explains.

“We just played around," he says. "There were these strange wheels outside, these tires that somebody had popped all over the neighborhood.” He continues, “The picture just came out of that playfulness, really.”

Gracie Mansion and the artist Sur Rodney Sur. 1980s East Village Art Scene © Andreas Sterzing

[moulindelaforge]

Mike Bidlo

[blueiscoool]

Mike Bidlo After Picasso ‘Woman Seated in a Garden’

Signed 'Bidlo' (on the reverse). Oil on canvas. 131.2 x 97 cm. (51 2/3 x 38 1/5 in.). Painted in 1987.

[oncanvas]

Not Pollock (Mural 1950), Mike Bidlo, 1983

Enamel on canvas 76 x 96 in. (193 x 243.8 cm)

[creativespark]

Andreas Sterzing, David Wojnarowicz and Mike Bidlo, The Piers, NYC, 1983

[fixy8ed4xys]

Mike Bidlo & David Wojnarowicz at Pier 34, NYC, 1983 | ph. Andreas Sterzing

https://www.x-traonline.org/article/echoes-from-the-edge

https://www.advocate.com/books/2019/5/17/12-golden-age-gay-sex-photos-new-york-piers-70s-80s

[g00melo5-art-blog]

Mike Bidlo, Not de Kooning, 1984, Sotheby's

[gregdotorg]

In 1990 artist Mike Bidlo thought he was copying Clyfford Still when he exhibited a blank canvas in a group show. But actually, Clyfford Still only threatened to exhibit a blank canvas to get the curator of the group show to leave him alone.

[babuinorey]

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Mike Bidlo 

[theworstt]

David Wojnarowicz (as Lou Reed) with Dean Savard and Alan Barrows at Mike Bidlo’s "Not Warhol’s Factory" at P.S.1, 1985. 1980s East Village Art Scene © Andreas Sterzing https://www.phillips.com/article/116467258/never-above-14th-street-contemporary-art-exhibition-new-york-basquiat-haring-wojnarowicz

[disciplinethepainter]

David Wojnarowicz and Mike Bidlo w Falling Man, 1983. Photo: Andreas Sterzing.

[bm-contemporary-art]

Convergence, Mike Bidlo, 1983, Brooklyn Museum: Contemporary Art

Size: 93 1/4 x 156 in. (236.9 x 396.2 cm) Medium: Oil on canvas

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/163367

[dead-molchun]

Mike Bidlo (1953 -) The Dream, 1987 (129.5 by 96.5 cm)

[mybeingthere]

Peter Hujar Photography

David Wojnarowicz is pictured here at the Ward Line Pier on the Hudson River in 1983. Wojnarowicz collaborated with Mike Bidlo and Luis Fragella; creating art within the piers alongside early gallery exhibitions they had also been having. 

David had first visited the piers whilst cruising, and the sexual charge from those experiences undoubtedly had a major impact on his work. Behind David is a work titled “Gagging Cow at Pier.” Cows were a recurring image in Wojnarowicz’s street art, and one that later reappeared in his more formal paintings. Wojnarowicz explained the image, as a cow “exploding with fear” as though being led to the slaughterhouse. He once spray-painted a large “friendly cow” on the corner of 2nd avenue and 12th street so that Peter could see it from his loft.