The Pretty Victims w/ The Shrunken Heads

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, September 26, 2009

The Pretty Victims
(formerly known as G.E.L.D.)

The Pretty Victims are a Madison-based three piece who normally specialize in a blistering but melodic combo of metal, punk, and anything alternative, but for this gig they are turning the heat down and performing a set of (energetic) acoustic tunes. The Pretty Victims are: Zeyad El-Omari, guitar and vocals; Wilder Deitz, bass and vocals; and Joe Galligan, drums.

The Shrunken Heads
By now a Madison staple, the young members of the Shrunken Heads have played everything from the King Street Block Party to Celebrating Youth! at the Monona Terrace to the -Lowellapalooza- fundraiser for Lowell School. They are throwing away the electric guitars and picking up the acoustic ones in this opening slot for the Pretty Victims. The members of the Shrunken Heads are Mitch Deitz, Shannon Connor, Sam Galligan, and Brendan Manley.

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