Mark Strodl

Narrative: "Fighting For Lost Causes" The silent language of reason. All too often our eyes deceive us while judging books by their cover, that is why I love Surrealism so much. To love this world especially when they don't love themselves.



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I was also the Currator



Being Represented in Chelsea NYC, 4 solo shows, 22 group shows, 6 Museums, 8, 1st prizes, winning NYS State Grants, and over 10 K visitors, this has always been my dream since I was the youngest of 5.

My narrative is to love one another, and that life is too short to be bitter, greedy, and resentful of others. That we have to be an army of nurturing others in a lost world.
I have always loved both drawing and photography since I was 5.

In these watercolors I am buddha on the mountain top, you can see my love of line, my love of the brush twisting and turning floating in my fingers over the surface in these spontaneous strokes dripping with gravity, drying in less than 30 seconds. Thank you, Michaelangelo for all the lessons you taught.

After attending SVA for 4 years at the top of my class, being a paid illustrator during my first year, ( along with Kieth Harring as a classmate) I spent the next 30 years on Madison Avenue with clients of De beers Diamonds, ABC & CBS station id’s, 4 Olympics . . . moving on to BBD&O for 10 years, as well as a fashion photographer in Vogue & Glamour.

Patina's: These are extremely limited editions, as in 25. I hate clean, pristine prints as no one has ever seen or touched them, or like a machine just spit them out. Often I put a patina on top of them, or they were shown prior in galleries & museums where many people have seen them before you. They have a viewing prominence, a history, and slight scuff built in them before they ended up on your wall. This is by design.

2023 StageCoach Run Treadwell NY, #9 Raised 12K
2023 Won NYState Grant for my Projection work for the Islip Arts Council for Black History Month.

2023 Wall Projections Islip Art Council, After Effects, Febuary.
2021 Islip Arts Museum, Forever Young 3 pieces Westfield Mall. June - August.

2020 Patchogue Arts Museum, New Visions.
2019 Farmingdale Collage, 3 Shadow Boxes, emerging Artists.
2019 One man Watercolor Show : Islip Arts Museum, 11 large watercolors, in the Rotunda.


2018 3rd Book,” Ransom Notes From Mommy” 98 pages, spiral-bound, limited editions.

2018 Mills Pond Gallery: St. James NY : Curated, ”Glimpses of Surrealism: 14 pieces in both watercolors & Digital
prints.

2017 Studio 5404 Political Fundraiser December 2017


2017 “Blue”, 67 pages. A Children’s book on Bigotry, to unteach their parents when they read it to them.

2017 Patchogue Arts Council, Dystopia exhibition, October 21st through.
2017 Cheryl McGinnis Projects smART stART: The Natural World, The Industrial World.

2017 Mc Arther Airport, One man Show, Islip NY.

2017 Art Space: 20 Terry St. Patchogue, NY.

2017 Islip Art Museum : Slide Slam at the Long Island Museum,
2017 Brickhouse Brewery : 67 W. Main St. Patchogue, NY

2016 1st Sculpture : “Pandor...