Stephanie Leitch & Sri Whipple & Zak Jensen | Maddison Colvin & James Talbot

Exhibitions Open Nov 2 through Dec 18, 2026

• Fri, Nov 6, 6-9pm: Opening Reception
• Fri, Nov 20, 6-9pm: Salt Lake Gallery Stroll
• Fri, Dec 4, 6-9pm: Salt Lake Gallery Stroll

Stephanie Leitch & Sri Whipple & Zak Jensen: Generative Chamber

Exhibition
Akin to the plasticity of language, when words and their meanings diverge, converge and transmute, we as artists are plumbing our subterranean commonalities. In Generative Chamber, we are exploring repetition and the iterative drive of loading information into space, the body as language and anatomical index, and the notion of de/re-familiarization through selective isolation and obfuscation. These themes are integrated by way of the microcosm/macrocosm in the matrices of our respective works. I will be producing a spatial site-specific installation involving field suspension and text, Sri will be continuing gesturally iterative calligraphies on various surfaces, while Zak will create multimedia paper-based works, as a responsive installation to our collaboration.

Biographies
Stephanie Leitch (she/they) is a hermetic maker of large-scale installation artworks and small-scale spells, whose work engages site, systems, repetition, generative principles and mysticism. They received a BFA with an emphasis in Intermedia Sculpture from the University of Utah and currently live and work in Salt Lake City. She maintains an active studio practice while also teaching college art foundation courses and casting spells with spreadsheets as the head office witch for a 95-year-old bookstore. She has exhibited throughout the West and has played the curatorial role in several exhibitions.

Sri Whipple is a visual artist based in Salt Lake City, Utah. He received his education from the University of Utah, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2000. Sri is recognized for his distinctive style, be it painting, drawing, silkscreen printing or mural work. He is well versed in virtually any medium, but his true love is oil paint. From youth Sri has had a keen interest in art history. His obsession with the masters from around the globe is balanced by a love of pop culture, animation, comic books, graffiti, hip hop and punk rock.

Zak Jensen is an artist, designer, and teacher exploring how meaning is made, found, shifted, and lost through the interplay of words, images, and objects. Born in Salt Lake, spent formative time in the awe-inducing landscapes of the West while trying to reconcile his world view with the dominant culture. Earned his BFA from the Univ. of Utah, his MFA from Yale University. After years living around the U. S., returned to Salt Lake where he teaches at his alma mater.

Maddison Colvin & James Talbot

Exhibition
This exhibition will pair photographs by James Talbot and drawings by Maddison Colvin. One walks through neighborhoods, the other combs through archives, both looking for specters difficult to look at directly; things which take on their truest shape in peripheral vision. A third collaborator emerges; an elderly man slowly moving through his Los Angeles neighborhood, which is soon to be demolished. He sees the shimmer of light through leaves, decaying concrete, the particular growth of a plant. All this is now gone. Photography immobilizes, drawing summons. These images are transmissions or echoes.

Biographies
Maddison Colvin is an interdisciplinary visual artist residing in Orem, UT. Originally from Washington State, she received a BA from Whitworth University in 2008 and an MFA from Brigham Young University in 2013. She was the recipient of Oak Spring Garden Foundation's 2020 Eliza Moore Fellowship and the 2023-24 Alan Jutzi Fellowship at The Huntington Library and Garden in Pasadena, CA. Through the mediums of painting, drawing, photography, and writing, she interprets both gardens and archives as sites of control, conflict, desire, failure, and accumulated history.

James Talbot is an artist living and working in Utah. His work deals with themes of place, memory, and objecthood. Since graduating with a BFA in Studio Art from Brigham Young University in 2019, he has self-published two photobooks, co-founded an independent publishing imprint of art and photography publications, and exhibited in group shows both domestic and international. Usually searching for innocuous and discrete subject matter, Talbot works with photography, video, and textual elements to mythologize places of personal significance. Through small visual details of colors, shadows, and other motifs, he hopes to capture a numinous spirit that contributes to a collective memory of those places.