Def Sonic 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, September 11, 2021
7:00 pm

Def Sonic, blurs genres w/ trippy vibes, layered beats, samples/loops, & synths - with percussive guitar strums & heartfelt vocal melodies.

Stephanie Rearick commemorates the 20th anniversary of her first solo album release, The Long Picnic. Which coincided with another significant anniversary (actually, more than 1) - which topic will be explored musically on Casio, vocals, loops, and trumpet.

"For Madison's Stephanie Rearick, labels like 'classical' and 'arty' don't do justice to the genre-bending music box of sound that comes from her upright piano. It's by turns adventurous and accessible, ancient and futuristic, comforting and scary." - The Onion A/V Club

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Note: We will be hosting this show outside by our graffiti wall. We will pass the hat to pay the musicians.