Elks Teeth & Rabbits Feet

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 10, 2015
8:00 pm

Leah Brooke and Blair Clark work together to compose their own brand of poetic abnormality, studded with dry wit and mesmeric vocals. Their evolving sound features bold, electronic beats and an unexpected electric guitar/synth partnership providing a bare bones soundscape for Brooke's soul piercing songs.