Mike Bidlo

Art Brokerage: Mike Bidlo American Artist: b. 1953. Mike Bidlo (painter, sculptor and performance artist) was born in Chicago, Illinois and studied at the University of Illinois and at Teachers College at Columbia University in New York. Bidlo's first solo show in 1982, entitled Jack the Dripper at Peg's Place, was part exhibition and part performance. The show was based on the 1950 Hans Namuth film of Jackson Pollock at work, and comprising a series of highly accurate replicas of Pollock's drip paintings, complete with a re-enactment of Pollock's famous act of urinating into Peggy Guggenheim's fireplace. Listings wanted by Art Brokerage.