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Mark Strodl is a multidisciplinary activist artist whose work spans mural watercolors, digital surrealism, and video storytelling—each medium rooted in themes of redemption, truth, freedom, and human resilience. A graduate of the School of Visual Arts, Strodl’s creative path began in the worlds of illustration, photography, and large-scale commercial production. After years in commercial media, Strodl redirected his life toward fine art and social activism, transforming personal hardship into creative purpose. Living with ADHD and dyslexia, and now over 30 years in recovery from addiction, he has built a body of work centered on compassion, memory, justice, and the overlooked human spirit. His paintings and animations have appeared in more than nine solo exhibitions and numerous group shows throughout New York and beyond.

12 Freedoms Of Democracy

Is an exhibition about giving physical form to the reminder in what we have seemed to have forgotten: things that we blindly accept that lose their meaning, and become invisible.

Each monumental watercolor explores an idea that cannot be seen: the freedom to dream, the freedom to be wrong, freedom from fear, freedom from surveillance, equality, conscience, memory, and the courage to question. 

Surrealism has always fascinated me because it says what we were thinking all along, yet forgot to ask. I do not paint things. I paint the invisible forces beneath them. My subjects are not people but the archetypes that shape human civilization: freedom, fear, memory, imagination, doubt, conscience, and power. Every painting asks the same question:

Mark Strodl is a multidisciplinary activist artist whose work spans mural watercolors, digital surrealism, and video storytelling—each medium rooted in themes of redemption, truth, freedom, and human resilience.  A Fellow of the Château d'Orquevaux.