SPREDTR

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, June 21, 2019
5:00 pm

SPREDTR is a low-fi, psychedelic beats experiment by dj Bruno Zaire (WORT's Pan Africa Radio). Expect turntables, jazz samples, and gothic broken beats. SPREDTR uses an archive of over 10 years of electronic-jazz recordings, that are sampled and sequenced into a soundscape of underground funk — then remixed live. New album is a cassette-based album released on Brooklyn's Fuzzy Warbles label. The 'K7' features dj Black Jack Nicholson, Bandy Lou, and dj BruceBlaq.

--- NOTE: This is a special free concert that will take place outside, by the graffiti wall. It is being presented as part of Make Music Madison, a citywide celebration of music.