HEROES : 7-FOOT MURALS. MONUMENTAL. UNAPOLOGETIC. ALIVE.   These are larger than they really seem.

What Warhol and Avedon gave to the celebrities, I give to everyone else.
These heroes aren’t on red carpets. They’re in kitchens, warehouses, buses, and break rooms. They are the fathers who worked 25 years at thankless jobs to keep the lights on. The mothers who built homes out of love, holding families together while the world looked away.
They are the invisible, the anonymous, the everyday giants who carry the weight of real life.

Each mural stands seven feet tall — because that’s the scale real heroism deserves. Up close, these faces overwhelm. They confront you. They remind you: dignity doesn’t need fame. In Strodl’s work, anonymity becomes power — a rebellion against the greed that erases lives and corrodes hope.
These are not pretty pictures. They’re monuments to the forgotten, shouts in the silence, a reminder that every unseen soul is a hero. 

HEROES — Because greatness isn’t on magazine covers.  It’s in real life all around us.

Mark Strodl is a NYC-represented,  interdisciplinary artist whose work spans continents and conversations, blending narrative practice. A fellow at the Château d'Orquevaux in France, he has exhibited internationally—from winning 1st place & representation in Chelsea, NYC, to being featured at the Château Diderot Museum. His has traveled to London’s Royal Academy and Vienna, where he engaged in discussions with Klaus Biesenbach and participated in discourse salons led by Hans Ulrich Obrist at the Serpentine. 

Strodl’s art doesn’t sit quietly—it socially constructs negative spaces, murals, it tries to create nice disturbances. Through illiteracy initiatives, prison reform, educational projects, and nonprofit collaborations, he challenges biased systems and discovers hidden narratives, in the innocence of a drip that can rock.