Reptile Palace Orchestra

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, March 1, 2008

Madison's eclectic Reptile Palace Orchestra hasn't slithered in Motherfool's Coffeehouse since 2001 but is looking forward to lighting the room up Saturday March 1 at 8pm with lightly amped up versions of Eastern European, Balkan folkdance material and psychedelic delicacies from Turkey, Egypt and the USA.

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