Andrea Reising

Art in the cafe...

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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Friday, March 26, 2004

Andrea Reising, of Milwaukee, founded The Drunken Buffalo Collective, a web-based publisher of music, visual arts and writing. She continues to run Drunken Buffalo, write, make art, as well as compose and perform music.

\"Reising is singer/songwriter who also plays a mean guitar... an unusual mixture of Nancy Sinatra and Liz Phair. She belts out heartfelt lyrics with a sweet, sometimes raspy voice.\" --Mara Kachelski, Gil\'s Cafe

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