Randal Harrison and Mark Urness

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, July 12, 2008

Violinist Randal Harrison (Honor Among Thieves, MAMAs winner for Best Jazz Artist, Blues Artist and Classical Artist) and Mark Urness (Lawrence Conservatory Bass Professor, winner of the International Society of Bassists Jazz Competition) team up to present an evening of duets. Their repertoire of mostly original compositions will span genres including: Jazz, Classical, Appalachian Funk, Tango Nuevo and the avant-garde.

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