 In 1984 Bidlo took a studio in a former blood bank building in Times Square where the other artists were Jiri George Dokoupil, Donald Baechlor, Philip Taffe, James Brown and Christian Marclay.It was there that he created a series after Franz Kline's seminal black and white abstractions, to scale.Between 1984 and 1985 he also painted Margritte's icon “Ceci n’est pas une pipe” and he recreated Man Ray's masterpiece, “A l'Heure de l'observatoire