Watercolors

"Straw Hat" 32"x 22" $2,800.00

StrawHats, many times it is as simple as shade, a place to hide. 2015

"Directions" 22"x 32" $1,600.00 2015

She could never make up her mind ! Sold

"Hawk", 51"X 51" "Scale." These are semi-murals. I paint large; I like things larger than us. 2017 Sold

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.

Ce que Warhol et Avedon ont offert aux célébrités, je l'offre à tous les autres.

Ces héros ne foulent pas les tapis rouges. Ils sont dans les cuisines, les entrepôts, les bus et les salles de pause. Ce sont les pères qui ont travaillé 25 ans dans des emplois ingrats pour subvenir aux besoins de leur famille. Les mères qui ont bâti des foyers par amour, préservant l'unité familiale tandis que le monde détournait le regard.

Ce sont les invisibles, les anonymes, les géants du quotidien qui portent le poids de la vie.

Chaque fresque mesure plus de deux mètres de haut – car c'est la dimension que mérite le véritable héroïsme. De près, ces visages sont saisissants. Ils vous comparent à nous. Ils vous rappellent : la dignité n'a pas besoin de gloire. Dans l'œuvre de Strodl, l'anonymat devient force – une rébellion contre l'avidité qui efface des vies et ronge l'espoir.

Ce ne sont pas de jolies images. Ce sont des monuments aux oubliés, des cris dans le silence, un rappel que chaque âme invisible est un héros.

DES HÉROS – Car la grandeur ne s'affiche pas en couverture des magazines. C'est partout autour de nous, dans la vie réelle.

"Target" 51' X 72" $ 8,000.00

We are layered: Painting all of our hidden infrastructures out loud. 2018

"Layers" 51' X 64" $ 8,000.00

We have many masks, it is pealing them away that is the most painful. 2017

"Invisible Time" 51' X 72" $ 8,000.00

Clocks, we all have them, some are more aware than others. 2018

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.

"Aqua" 44' X 64" $ 3,500.00 A sea eurchin ? A mermaid from Coney Island. 2015

"Soggie Kisses" 20' X 24" $ 1,500.00. We all need them. 2019

"Contemplation" 44' X 64" $ 4,000.00 A wise person questions themselves with no remorse. 2019

You're not supposed to do portraits in watercolors; many will say that is insane, and it is. Others will say that watercolors are supposed to be small & dainty. I love breaking rules, doing things that are hard and impossible. Yet they will also take you to different places. I like painting in negative, if you don't know what that is, stay tuned. When you can't go over a surface a million times as with oils, you start planning things like not overworking a surface. Simplicity, how it's going to breathe, and how I will use economy and spontaneity to see ? Nothing drips better than watercolors in fleeting moments of time.

Glass : To frame or not to frame? I believe that watercolors are not meant to be smothered, covered, and entombed under glass where they can no longer breathe, that these reflections spatter across your eyes as annoying traffic distracting. So when you can inspect my pieces, you will see all of my mistakes close up because they are not hidden. You know I am human and flawed, and this nature's beauty in the raw. If a pizza pie of a rosie gets tossed onto it, so be it, improve & let it be as Rauschenberg would say. ( However, remote throwing dinner might be. )