Liz Roth - 24 Portraits in 24 Hours

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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Monday, April 25, 2005

Liz Roth will be painting 24 Portraits in 24 Hours. Sign up in the cafe to have your portrait done.

Here are last years portraits.

Liz Roth is a painter/printmaker who depicts social concerns in a humorous way - whether it's about coworkers functioning as a reluctant substitute family in the United States (Cheeseburger Soup, a series about Madison Department of Transportation workers), or how Americans perceive the relationship between beauty and weight (she completed a nude self-portrait-a-day project for six months, see www.lizroth.com). She's been invited to Japan to create art installations and public art works dealing with environmental issues.

In the last few months, Liz has received a Madison citiARTS grant for a public painting project, and a generous national grant from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation to create her next big installation, America: 101.

During the past couple of years Roth has been an artist in residence at the Jentel Artist Foundation (in Wyoming), the Awagami Paper Factory (in Japan), the Kamiyama (Japan) Artists in Residence program, and the Vermont Studio Center. In Japan, she completed a painting installation, as well as an outdoor, interactive, collaborative, printmaking/book arts project. In 2001 she was one of two painters awarded the Wisconsin Arts Board Individual Artist Fellowship.

Her works have been acquired by many national and international collections, including the Walker Museum of Art, the Museu del Joguet in Spain, the Museum of Awa Japanese Paper, and the KAIR Contemporary Art Collection.

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