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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, July 20, 2012

Without exaggeration, Stuart Davis is one of the most fascinating and exceptional songwriters in modern music.
SAN JOSE METRO

Davis may be the best songwriter you-ve never heard of.
DES MOINES REGISTER

Not since Bob Dylan burst through has Minnesota produced such a confident and creative songwriter and social observer.
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