BEEFGRASS

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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Friday, June 22, 2018
8:00 pm

Newly emerged from the cornrows and the shambledown haybarns of Rurl Amerca cums the offbeat country n' blewgrass mutants of BEEFGRASS. Featuring members of Madison stalwarts Beefus, the Driveway Thriftdwellers, Five Points Jazz Collective and Fringe Character, BEEFGRASS is a swingin' slice of hoedown hysteria that will leave your straw hat blazin' and your boots bleedin'. Scoot on down to Mother Fools to hear them "jam" on banjo, guitar, mandolin, pedal steel, bass, trombone, drums, muppet, and MORE COWBELL, and prepare to have your mules frightened and your tractor fractured. There is nothing on earth like BEEFGRASS - watch it growl and howl and ravage the crops.