Venice Gas House Trolly w/ Enemy Lines Music - $6

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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Friday, June 5, 2009

Art is an expression that lives in us when we view its works. To try to capture subjects as or, certain symbols or strokes that evoke truth or beauty. With acrylic and oil I'm able to capture some time evocative musings afterward - that will stay afterwards. To live, to live to live - or die as a resident of madison for these past 10 years, I've been showing my work in hopes it will be acceptable to my audience.

Enemy Lines Music is a group of Madison-based musicians interested in exploring the interaction between composition, improvisation and everything else.

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