---No Camouflage--- Benefit

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, May 7, 2005

Catfish Stephenson, Freddy Faggot, Andy Ewen, Adem Tesfaye and David Hart will all perform to raise money to print "No Camouflage."

No Camouflage is a CD Project documenting the collective expression of nonviolent sentiment by Madison artists in response to our government's declaration of war on Iraq.

The power of our first amendment, of a collective voice, and the opposition to murder and violence has compelled local artists to contribute to this CD.

---No Camouflage--- Features:

Skintones, Bar Tabbies, Andy Ewen, God-des, Freddy Faggot, Wendy Bugatti, Staphanie Rearick, Nicole Gruder, Jerry Alexander, Motor Primitives, Colony Of Watts, David Hart, Adem Tesfaye, Jim Schwall, Cris Plata, Jo Gabriel, Bongzilla Russell Hall --- AND MORE

CD will also feature testimonials from active soldiers phoned in from Iraq.

Admission to the benefit is $3 - $10.

Music