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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, April 17, 2009

Db (dave) pedersen brings his vocal menagerie to the stage of Mother Fool's. He will be up to his usual hijinks of improvisation, extended voice theater, throat singing from beyond the horizon, as well as sharing anecdotes from the cradle to grave and back. A unique voice on the Madison art scene, db's progress is maddeningly slow, but wonderous to catch a glimpse of.

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