Stephanie Rearick, Jr. w/ Diana Darby - $6

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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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Ruth Comfort


"The Metaphysical Affect"


January 2026



A diverse collection of mixed mediums, extensively encapsulating my heart and soul concerning the dreams of the human condition. ARTISAN RUTH COMFORT My given name is Ruth Comfort. Named after the amazing artist Louis Comfort Tiffany. I hail from a very long line of artisans and musicians. Even dating back to the great German philosopher...
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Friday, May 4, 2012

Stephanie Rearick Jr. -- Stephanie Rearick\'s latest project features her with her casio, trumpet and loop pedal. Some will be familiar to her fans but bunches of new, too and it is different enough to require its own name.

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Diana Darby-s I V (intravenous) is a brand new album of songs that have passed through seven years of fire in a real life, retaining what Pitchfork called \"minimal, whispered rendition(s)\" of \"powerfully fatalistic evaluations of hope.\" I V is flooded with the full promise bled out previously on revealing, critical favorites Fantasia Ball and The Magdalene Laundries and is sure to lovingly reconnect Darby to her fervent cult, as much as entrance an entirely new crowd of noir-folk fans.

Though living in Nashville for the past several years, Darby returned to New York in 2011 to record new songs inspired by a staggering amount of blues-creating circumstances. Her guitar and vocal tracks were cut live from ferociously focused single takes. Additional instruments and harmonies were added back home. The result is a nuanced, intense, gorgeous full-length album with top-notch studio players (Viktor Krauss, Dan Dugmore, and David Henry) adding to Diana-s vision.

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