Stacy Riedel - Author book tour

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, February 18, 2012

Stacy Riedel spent her early years in southern California and Las Vegas, eventually making her way to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. These disparate cultures and experiences inform the comic inside her, her writing marrying the amusement of life\'s big heartbreaks with the absurdity of our little triumphs. Ms. Riedel\'s work seeks out the sweetness in every last hardened soul, all with a bold and contemporary style readers absorb like a conversation with a favorite old friend.

Ms. Riedel\'s completed works include her debut novel, The King is Dead (2010), and her sophomore feat, The Field (2011). In between projects, she helms BananaWishbone.net, a humorous blog chronicling life in the Midwest.

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