 In 1980 shortly after moving to New York from Chicago, Bidlo participated in Colab's Times Square Show and in 1982 Bidlo was awarded a studio at the P.S.One Museum where he staged "Jack the Dripper at Peg's Place," an installation rendering his vision of Peggy Guggenheim's Beekman Place townhouse, with the fireplace famously used by Pollock as a pissoir.Bidlo's event was an act of homage and defiance and for the next few years he immersed himself in discovering how to paint like Pollock, then executing his series to scale of “NOT Pollock” drip paintings.