Catalogue for the exhibition 'Lying, but only a little' at INTERVAL Gallery in Los Angeles, 26 September, 10 October 2026. The show pairs two LA-based painters who use landscape vocabulary while abandoning the need to depict real places. The text explains the curatorial concept and introduces both artists.
This is the exhibition catalogue for 'Lying, but only a little', a two-person painting show at INTERVAL Gallery in Los Angeles, running from 26 September to 10 October 2026. The catalogue is for visitors, collectors and anyone interested in contemporary painting that uses landscape as a starting point without aiming for geographic accuracy.
The opening text describes the exhibition's concept: both artists dismantle landscape's obligation to describe a real place, working instead with memory without documentation, nature without geography, and light detached from source. The catalogue asks whether an image can be factually false yet emotionally exact.
Artist pages follow. Kristi Head is introduced as a Los Angeles-based painter working between representation, surrealism and abstraction, with a practice that also includes mural work, commercial design, fabric dyeing, wearables and photography. She trained at Huntington Fine Arts and Boston University.
Mark Acetelli is introduced as a Detroit-born, self-taught painter based in Los Angeles, influenced by Turner, Rothko and the Zen concept of ma. His work is held in collections in the US, Europe, Dubai, Japan and South America. Both artists live and work in Los Angeles.
The catalogue then lists individual works by Kristi Head with details: oil on canvas, framed in solid eastern black walnut. Titles include Wisteria (34×36 inches, $6,000), We've Been Here Before (77×65 inches, $18,500), Flowerbed (60×32 inches, $7,000), Overgrowth (20×20 inches, $2,500), Just Passing Through (18×24 inches, $2,800), Waiting For The Wind To Change (67×132 inches, price on request), and Pink Moon (8×10 inches, acrylic on canvas, framed in solid fumed white oak, $1,200, marked…