Vedic Eden

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, July 10, 2015
8:00 pm

Vedic Eden has been performing their unique and inspired music since being formed by Jaems Murphy in 2011 ; catchy pop melodies and folksy chord progressions over world percussive grooves with layered vocal harmonies, keyboard and trumpet all deftly arranged in a cinematic fashion. Their lyrics capture a sense of clandestine whimsy as they explore the construct of human ego through allusions to fairy-tales, children's stories and mythology.

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