Page Foster w/ Jennifer Hedstrom - $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, April 6, 2012

From Minneapolis, currently stationed in Madison, Page Foster comes to this show presenting original and borrowed songs with an honest, captivating voice, accompanied by nylon-string acoustic guitar and by local upright bass extraordinaire Ben Willis.

Jennifer Hedstrom is a perpetual daughter of the Midwest. With her voice and 88 black and white keys, Jennifer-s music explores the bittersweet complexities of a seemingly simple life. Her debut album, Bodies of Water, was released in June and is available for online download. Mastered by her good friend and creative collaborator Yoo Soo Kim of Hemmingbirds, the album showcases Jennifer-s ability to combine her classically trained background with calculated lyricism. At times swelling and full of emotion and the next as calm and clear as a reflecting pool, the themes of Bodies of Water are as varied and ever-changing as its namesake.