Subvocal w/ Brian Daly

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, July 23, 2005

Madison's ambient psychedelic band, Subvocal, will be performing an acoustic set featuring a solo performance by Brian Daly of ---Sunshine For The Blind." This will be Subvocals first performance in about a year.

Singer and guitarist Brian Daly plays moody pop with a dark edge. He performs solo with an acoustic guitar and plays songs that are inventive and go beyond the usual singer/songwriter conventions while remaining impossibly catchy. The topic matter of the songs tends towards the personal surrealistic. Daly is also the leader of a Sunshine for the Blind, a hard rock power trio.

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