The Ericksons

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, October 23, 2009

The Ericksons bring their indie-folk sound to Madison via Brooklyn, NY. Bethany and Jenny have been writing, recording and playing music in NYC for the past three years and are very happy to be calling Minneapolis their new home base. With sounds from tenor and acoustic guitars, banjo and vocals that interweave creating layers of harmony and skilled melodies the two create a captivating energy on stage. It is through making music together that the pair attempts to live honestly and find beauty even in the darkest of places.