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    Unhinged Exhibitionism at Bizarre (Photos)

    Christopher Harrity

    Christopher Harrity is the Manager of Online Production for Here Media, parent company to The Advocate and Out. He enjoys assembling online features on artists and photographers, and you can often find him poring over the mouldering archives of the magazines.
    Christopher Harrity is the Manager of Online Production for Here Media, parent company to The Advocate and Out. He enjoys assembling online features on artists and photographers, and you can often find him poring over the mouldering archives of the magazines.
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    Madame Vivien V's Leap of Faith © Meryl Meisler 2015. Read about the Bizarre exhibit below.

    Sometimes several great ideas happen at once, triggered into action by one great inspiration.

    Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire, a French filmmaker location scouting in New York City, fell in love with a boarded-up building in Bushwick, a neighborhood in Brooklyn. Then he squatted in it until he owned it. When Jean met up with Gregory Baubeau, a friend from the film industry, they decided to turn the building into a bar. Inspired by wild tales of Café Bizarre, a bygone legendary Greenwich Village club, Bizarre brings back the unhinged art and excess of the ’80s, but in Bushwick, not Tribeca. 

    Enter out photographer Meryl Meisler. Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire sees Meryl’s iconic photos from the '70s and '80s (Related: 18 Fabulous Photos of Suburban Life in the 1970s), and Jean invites Meryl to exhibit at Bizarre. At first Meryl was reticent about exhibiting in the basement of a bar, then inspiration hit like a lighting bolt as she eyed a disco ball hanging in Bizarre's restroom — this would be the perfect place.

    And now this: "BIZARRE Assorted Madness & The Unexpected" is currently showing at the Bizarre Black Box Gallery. Meryl, Jean, and Gregory have captured the chaotic and rowdy scene there to expose the goings-on, which are nothing short of … bizarre. 

    Bizarre Black Box Gallery
    Exhibition through January 1
    12 Jefferson St., Brooklyn, N.Y. 

    Bizarre published Meryl Meisler's internationally acclaimed books A Tale of Two Cities Disco Era Bushwick and Purgatory & Paradise SASSY '70s Suburbia & The City.

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    Madame Vivien V's Leap of Faith © Meryl Meisler 2015. Read about the Bizarre exhibit below.
    Untitled © Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
    Untitled © Gregory Baubeau 2016
    Untitled © Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
    Untitled © Gregory Baubeau 2016
    Untitled © Gregory Baubeau 2016
    Untitled © Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
    Matthew Silver Caged © Meryl Meisler 2015
    Column Between Queens 2016 © Meryl Meisler 2015
    Prepping for Bushwick Burlesque © Meryl Meisler 2016
    Untitled © Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
    Umbrella Dance © Meryl Meisler 2015
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