White Wolf and Sonic Princess

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, September 29, 2007

White Wolf & Sonic Princess started incorporating live music into thier theatrical productions a few years ago and began to build a set of original songs from there. They have been working on a "rock opera" called "Elston Gunn is Banished from Eden," but only glimpses of the work have surfaced at special events and art openings. The full piece is still slated to premiere in Chicago in early 2008. Our band started out as a duo and has now blossomed into a four piece band (vocalist, guitar, bass & drums) with occasional guests. We are working on a self-recorded, self-produced set of music tentatively entitled, "This Car Available."