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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, July 5, 2008

"What kind of music? I'm really not sure. In the most general sense you could say 'their own': the taste of ripe cherries and the smell of the core of fresh oak. How can you disentangle the senses as they enter the sounds? Their music is a heightened sense of awareness wherever they go, and that creates a mesh like a spider's web, but the filaments in the songs are made of the finest strings of light instead, light filled with crane cackle, the smell of earth-ripening mushrooms, the look of an old Amish barn or a wine cellar from Marie Antoinette's basement.

"In Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, you'll find some of the sophistication of thought and feeling that moves them." -The Sinissippi Tribune

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