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Laurel Statz


"The Spectator"


December 2025



Laurel Statz is a painter and Madison area native. Her work, while figurative, is influenced by abstraction and minimalism. The paintings often have a quick and instinctual nature, capturing just what’s needed. While she often times herself to eliminate extra details and over-precision, she has ventured into more detailed works as well. Laurel does not attach narrative to her pieces. Rather, she thinks of them like a journaling process for her scatter-brained psyche. The figures in the pieces are meant to be processing tools for the artist and the viewer. She hopes that seeing these figures helps the...
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Wednesday, April 26, 2000

solo dance improvisation by Andrew FermsideOne hour of moonlit machinations, handwoven spiral gyrations, and deliberate dance. Including footstomping, arm waving, deliberate missteps, hair pulling, tweaking, twiddling, diligent diddling and sweating sexual uncertainty.

Performance Art