Fellow Creatures

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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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Saturday, June 20, 2015
8:00 pm

Fellow Creatures is a swampy indie rock band from swampy Washington, DC. They like guitar synths, putting pickups on toy pianos, vocal harmonies, and getting people to dance. They emerged from the composted remains of Ugly Purple Sweater in September 2014 and quickly emerged as one of DC's most distinctive and consistent live performers. Fellow Creatures plans to release their debut album this autumn.

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