Rose Polenzani w/ Sharon Lewis

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, June 15, 2007

Rose Polenzani and Sharon Lewis are reuniting for a two week tour in the US. Rose, a longtime fan of Sharon's old band Pooka, first brought Sharon to the states in 2004, where they began developing a musical rapport, which they continued to pursue on their UK tour in 2005. Sweet, gentle, and strange, their two voices, with barebones guitar and piano accompaniment, will thrill the listener. They will be selling a limited-run e.p. called "Kings and Queens," featuring live-in-studio recordings from the end of their 2005 UK tour, never before released.

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