Vortex

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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Saturday, December 4, 2004

Improvised music.

Greg Taylor, Tom Hamer, db pedersen, Endless and Jon Arnold.

Singularly and in combinations, these local improvisors will create sounds hitherto unheard.

This will be a CD Release party for a new 3 inch CD of live recordings from on-air appearances by the various players on WORT, 89.9 fm.

Music