Payton Barronian

Payton Barronian (he/him) is an artist and art director born and raised in Seattle now residing in Brooklyn, New York. His work rejects the maxim that minimalism is a must and queers the standard slickness of commercial design. Payton's designs are densely populated with an overabundance of texts and textures. The resulting cacophony mimics and accelerates the noise of modern design. While often appearing overly saturated, his work remains sensuously alluring, perhaps in kinship with the dissonant yet rich effect of diversity in their home of New York City. The richly layered fields of image and design become textural and a beautifully enmeshed field of content that moves fluidly between claiming it’s unique singularity and being lost in the crowd.