Marianne Flemming

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, February 11, 2005

"Marianne Flemming now makes the Midwest her home, but the
singer/songwriter's travels around the world, from the Caribbean to
Europe to South America have lent her folk-blues a singular style
ungoverned by race or region". Creative Loafing, Tampa, FL

Born and raised in South Florida, Marianne first got the music bug from
her father, a crooner from the big band era. She developed a love for
the eccentric and emotional aspects of song from listening to Jane
Siberry, Anita O'Day, OIngo Boingo, Howlin Wolf, Frank Zappa and many
others. Her music has been called both sensual and sweet, endearingly
funny, and soulfully insightful.

With the recent addition of a family, Marianne has settled down in
Madison, WI but she still tours Florida and the East Coast.

"Seekers of pleasant surprises would do well to examine Venetian Dream.
From Cafe Jazz poised and precise, to a brilliant mixture of ska, pop,
and country blues. Mapped out scats and playful torch singing produce
swinging ballads, quiet anthems, and tumbling post-bop jigs. Marianne
has melted years of experiance into a tidy package of pithy
memories....songs that are breezy and full of thought" - MaximumInk

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