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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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Friday, December 16, 2011

Attention lyricists and story-tellers! Mother Fool\'s will be hosting a free, open-mic style reading on Friday, December 16th and you are all encouraged to participate. Sign-up begins at 7:30, so dust off those manuscripts, flip through your old diaries and show us what you\'ve got.

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