Jenny Dalton - $6

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...
[ more ]


Friday, October 12, 2012

Hailing from Minneapolis, Jenny Dalton is a self-taught musician weaving piano, autoharp and percussion in original style. Influenced by the minor chords of alternative-pop favorites like The Smiths and Kate Bush, Dalton blends words and sound in an arrestingly introspective soundscape. She has a haunting soprano voice that soars and steals hearts. WIth two independently released albums under her belt, Dalton is producing her third full-length project at her home studio.

\"Jenny Dalton is a lovely girl, at once timeless and classic. There is a sense of independence and fearless creativity in Dalton-s music that leaves the listener a little unsettled, even haunted at times. Deep within Dalton\'s songwriting is a feeling of mysticism, an obvious and intense love for the piano that makes her music captivating and quietly beautiful.\" - Pulse of the Twin Cities

\"Dalton\'s music may be described as stark: Her distant and calm voice and icy piano weave about each other, hinting briefly at Celtic inspirations.\" - City Pages

MUSIC VIDEOS:
\"Cadence vs. Hugo Varvoglis\"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9lvundGQr4

\"Circles\"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6wNTIPbTsQ