Philadelphia-area abstract painter Ellen Priest has used jazz as the subject for her layered, collaged paintings since 1990.  Most recently, she completed a four-year body of work titled, “Jazz: Edward Simon’s ‘Venezuelan Suite’ #1

Lauren Matsumoto is an artist living and working in Dumbo, Brooklyn. She has a degree in Painting from Yale University and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her work focuses on forms pulled from nature and assembled into collaged drawings and paintings. Her work has been shown int