In the East Room, I-20 will show four new portraits by Marina Kappos. Her recent work has transitioned away from depicting collapsed, sometimes broken architectural landscapes. The portraits are against white backgrounds. This set is comprised of two pairings: two self-portraits; and two portrait’s of her identical twin sister’s friend Josh. The pairs are exactly the same, except for the fact that they face in opposite directions, like a person and a mirror image. This doubling is a reference to the artist’s relationship with her twin, and the idea of painting as an unscientific way to clone people and animals.
Kappos is a graduate of the California Institute of the Arts, and received her MFA from the Yale University School of Art. She was born in 1972, and was raised in Pasadena. She lives and works in New York.