JusThis

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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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Friday, June 11, 2004

Detroit native Ryan Mackstaller, heralded as \"one of the most progressive and broad-minded\" guitarists around, brings his new stunning avant jazz-rock trio, JusThis to Mother Fool\'s. Anchored by bari saxophonist Dan Bennett and drummer Tim Brown, the three have a sound that immediately brings to mind the band Morphine musically turned up on its head. Incorporating elements of group improv and carnivalesque theatrics, JusThis regularly performs an original suite based on music icon Tom Waits, a work which jazz critic Mark Stryker declares, \"the title is enough to make me want to be there when it goes down.\"

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