The Crooked Mouth w/ Wendy Schneider

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, October 3, 2015
8:00 pm

The Crooked Mouth is a band of divergent styles with the contributions of five songwriters doing many musical duties. Though there are string instruments and a storytelling sensibility, this isn't alt country. This isn't alt folk or alt rock. It's something in-between. Melody and lyric come together in often unusual ways without clutter or extraneous decor. The Crooked Mouth cuts its own groove.

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Wendy Schneider performs stripped down rock songs reminiscent of her Madison band, Bugatti Type 35. Raspy, heartfelt vocals behind sometimes dark-sided lyrics and a clean electric sound that is simple and strong.

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