Reality’s meaning, as one of the prevailing concepts in both art and philosophy, continues to expand through contemporary practices. In art—whether in paintings or works of fiction—reality has been pondered with respect to its mutability, corrosiveness, and contrivance. Assertions have been raised about artworks and their disjuncture from reality, as well as their push and pull between the notions of the ideal and the uncontrollable dynamic—its instabilities and uncertainties—dictated by the hard facts that can only be felt in the actuality of living it. In the show Study in Reality, the realness of a subject enters the secluded context of a gallery, where Martha Atienza extends the nature of reality as experienced in projects where she has been forced to wrestle with its concept.