The Crooked Mouth w/ Stephanie Rearick

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, December 8, 2018
8:00 pm

Chicago-based, genre-defying five person outfit, with a storytelling, air cane playing front man. Alt-punk cabaret? Maybe.

Long ago, there was Maestro Subgum and The Whole, a band of epic proportions, from which grew the Curious Theatre Branch, from which grew, later, The Crooked Mouth: two mamas, a grandpa, the world's oldest teenager, and Troy.

Beau O'Reilly ~ lead vocals and good cheer
T-Roy Martin ~ guitar, banjo, uke, vocals
Jenny Magnus ~ drums, vocals
Heather Riordan ~ accordion
Vicki Walden ~ bass, vocals

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