Benefit for Bitch Magazine featuring Stephanie Rearick, Nicole Gruter / Wilhelmina Baker

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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Thursday, May 15, 2008

For Madison's Stephanie Rearick, labels like 'classical' and 'arty' don't do justice to the genre-bending music box of sound that comes from her upright piano. It's by turns adventurous and accessible, ancient and futuristic, comforting and scary. On her 2005 album Star Belly, sounds from an old west barroom mingle with high concept cabaret and psychedelic distortion. -- The Onion

Nicole Gruter / Wilhelmina Baker...
Wilhelmina Baker is Nicole's current solo project. She sings arias through effects pedals, bares heart heart through a megaphone, pops out of a box to chastise the iraq war, turns from muslim to redneck with the help of Brooks and Dunn, and hands out tasty morsels that corresponde to the song at hand. Every show is different, multi-sensory (mmm..yummy), sometimes political, sometimes silly. Always entertaining!

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