Alex Regenold recently joined the staff of Park City’s Kimball Art Center, where as Director of Communications she’s currently busy promoting the Center’s new exhibit Moving Pictures. A Colorado native, she studied creative writing at the University of Colorado Boulder. She’s lived in Park City and Salt Lake City on and off since 2017, and is happy to be back in Utah after a brief stint living in Salida, Colorado. She lives in Salt Lake City with her husband, Nick, and their two dogs, Eddyline (“Eddy”) and Maude. She says her new job comes with some great perks: each day she is surrounded by work by artists from across the country and she gets to develop her own painting and drawing skills in the Kimball’s many art classes.
What are you reading lately?
I just finished (and enjoyed) Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. I’m also almost finished with The Art Thief, by local Park City author Michael Finkel. It’s been a wild read!
If you could choose one person to paint or sculpt your portrait, who would it be?
An artist from history: Vincent van Gogh. An artist working today: Kathleen Peterson
What is the most memorable exhibit you’ve seen recently?
We attended an Antonio Ligabue exhibition in Sorrento at the end of the summer, and it was incredible!
As a gift to my in-laws, I’m creating a book of memories from our recent family trip to New Foundland (using my mother-in-laws photographs alongside my gouache paintings of the same scenes).
This is our chance to check in with members of Utah’s art community to see what they’ve been reading, seeing, doing.
Categories: On the Spot | Visual Arts
I had the pleasure of meeting Alex at the opening of Moving Pictures, where she recalled answering my previous, phoned-in questions a couple of times, prompting me to wonder how many people care enough to remember such things any more. Alex is bright and ebullient and now I see why she responded so adroitly to my comments about Moving Pictures: she’s an artist with a reader’s mind, something we need more of in an age when some art providers are over-credentrialed and under-practiced. I look forward to many more rewarding conversations in the rich environment of the Kimball’s ever-stimulating exhibitions.