Chelsea, New York: Viridian Artists Gallery is pleased to present “The Measure of Our Reality,” an exhibition of works by artist Ellen Burnett. The show opens Tuesday, June 17 and continues through Saturday, July 12 with an Opening Reception Thursday, June 19 from 6 to 8pm. A Closing Reception will be held at the gallery on Saturday, July 12 between the hours of 4 and 6pm.

The Measure of Our Reality

Things are not always what they seem.
Where does the truth lie?
And in whose reality
do we measure our sense of what is right?

That which we thought was secure, dissolves as we breathe.
There are demons among us.
Unkind. Noisy.

I am shattered. We are scattered.
And the Demons return.
Dreams are unsatisfactory
Echoes of the ancestors
Retelling the nightmares.

It depends on your POV
Or the time of day
Or your time in life

What stories you tell, what version of reality you live.

The pieces in this show
are narrative works, emerging both from
the dreamworld and
the daily muddle.
What we see we wish for
amidst
Recurrent thoughts of running away.

The pieces in this show
are narrative works, and the stories they tell
vary from viewer to viewer.
How you see what you see differs depending on where you stand.

The pieces in this show
reflect the obtuseness and the optimism of living as if
we all have world enough, and time.