Garrol Gayden

Gayden’s work focuses on densely saturated drawings based on New York City’s seaside amusement park, Coney Island. He first began drawing when he was five years old – fixated by the television, he picked up a notepad and pencil and outlined Big Bi...

Gayden’s work focuses on densely saturated drawings based on New York City’s seaside amusement park, Coney Island. He first began drawing when he was five years old – fixated by the television, he picked up a notepad and pencil and outlined Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, Elmo and other favorite characters. Layering over the figures, he wrote down the letters and words he saw on the screen; from that day forward, he continued to draw, filling notebook after notebook. The use of text interwoven with figurative drawing remains his signature technique to this day.