Alice Brightsky w/ Teddy Davenport

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, August 30, 2014
8:00 pm

“The NYC artist has everything you'd ever want from the loudest music you'll ever hear, but delivered from such an intimate place, you'll pull your ear in closer to find out just what exactly she's lost and loves.” -- The Deli Magazine

“Alice Brightsky’s début is self-assured and confident. It is wonderfully produced and does enough with the basic acoustic guitar rock formula to show that she’s capable of pouring plenty of ideas into the melting pot without forgetting what her core is. An exciting talent to watch in the future.” -- Higher Plain Music

Born and raised in Madison WI, Teddy Davenport was first introduced to old time country as a child. He got his first guitar around the age of 14. Right around then he started to search out in the world of music and discovered great artists like Bob Dylan and Jimmy Hendrix. Influenced by many styles, his sound is based in Americana. As he says, "Everybody has a story, I like to share mine in a song."