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Peyton Bailey’s As A Living Sacrifice, Bless These Bruised Knees stood out for its evocative title and painterly and powerful artistic expression, inviting us all to take a deeper reading of sacrifice, resilience and the complexities of our collective human experience. Congratulations on being recognized with the Curator's Choice Award for VELVET.

“The figures are tormented, plagued by anxiety at the potential of their eternal damnation. They commit small acts of rebellion, and experience spiritual awakening. My work is an act of defiance, a howl, grief, and a counter narrative, exploring accessibility to the divine and community amongst the exiled.”

Peyton Michelle Bailey is a painter from Athens, Georgia. She holds an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. During her time at the SMFA, she received the Montague Travel Grant and the Dean’s Research Fund. She earned her BFA in Drawing and Painting from the University of Georgia. Peyton has recently shown work in the Fay Chandler Emerging Art Exhibition at Boston City Hall, the 2025 MFA Thesis Show at Tufts University Art Gallery, as well as at Halsey McKay Gallery in Graham Collins’ show Worker’s Playtime.

See Bailey’s powerful work in VELVET, on view at Juniper Rag Contemporary.

"My photography begins in the space between what is visible and what is felt. I am drawn to fleeting light, layered shadows, softened edges, and the quiet strangeness that can surface in an ordinary scene. I find such interest in creating work considered edgy or surreal—images that unsettle the familiar, resist easy interpretation, and invite viewers into an altered way of seeing. Whether I am photographing a solitary figure, an architectural line dissolving into darkness, or an object made unfamiliar by night, I look for images that feel suspended—part memory, part dream, and not entirely resolved."

Sara Beth McCabe is a Massachusetts-based photographer whose work explores storytelling, human connection, social justice, and the unexpected beauty of everyday life. Working in digital, 35mm, and medium-format photography, she creates narrative and documentary images that bring visibility to experiences and stories that might otherwise go untold.

We are thrilled to share Sara's work in VELVET.

Melissa Parent's work reflects connections with nature through a feminine lens, often being inspired by folklore, vintage pop culture imagery or objects, as well as cultural and familial traditions. Her work explores the spiritual and energetic elements of nature that influence her, igniting the work with color and texture that make the work portray that same vibration.

"My recent artistic focus has been exploring the relationship between humanity and nature. The human species are made of the same elements as our natural world- our bodies are earth born. Our coexistence with this natural world can be both tumultuous and simultaneously harmonious."

We are excited to share Parent's work in VELVET, on view at Juniper Rag Contemporary @