etheReality

from breath to air, and back

June 21 - August 31, 2025
Free & Open to the public
Saturdays & Sundays 1:00 - 5:00 pm
& by appointment

Opening Reception
Saturday June 28, 5:00 - 7:00 pm

Extended hours for Upstate Art Weekend
Thursday July 17 - Monday July 21, 12:00 - 5:00 pm

The exhibition is curated by Alison McNulty and includes works by:

Bel Falleiros
Ghost of a Dream
Sanie Irsay
Mollie McKinley
Jason Mitcham
Megan Pahmier
Linda Stillman
Amy Talluto

etheReality: from breath to air, and back is a group exhibition of works across various media that consider the cyclical, interconnected and often intangible relationship between individuals and the collective. The show attempts to locate our contemporary human reality in the murky, haunted spaces between our cumulative acts of destruction and a shared atmosphere of grief and loss, while offering glimpses of inspiration in connection to each other and the natural world. How is breath tied to time and place? How do our everyday actions and habits co-create a vast cosmic phenomenon that echoes through the ether and implicates us in its return?

Programming at Ann Street Gallery:

August 16, 2:00 - 3:30pm
One only Earth, One only Sky
Workshop with Bel Falleiros
Details here.
RSVP required to annstreetgallery@safe-harbors.org

August 23, 2:00 - 3:30pm

Artist Dialogs:
Jason Mitcham and
Ghost of a Dream, moderated by Alison McNulty
Details here.

August 30, 2:00 - 3:30pm

Artist Panel:
Round Robin Q&A between Mollie McKinley, Linda Stillman, Amy Talluto, and curator Alison McNulty

Details here.

Exhibition Materials:

Exhibition Checklist
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Press:

Hyperallergic
10 Shows to See in Upstate New York This August
(Download PDF here)

Two Coats of Paint
Hudson Valley (+vicinity) Selected Gallery Guide: July 2025

Times Union
What to see during Upstate Art Weekend
(Download PDF here)

Bel Falleiros

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Bel Falleiros is a Brazilian artist whose practice focuses on place and belonging. She creates immersive welcoming spaces to be in community with nature, with our inner being and the beings around us. She is a fellow artist of Sacatar Institute (2014), Pecos National Park (2016), Burnside Farm, Detroit (2017), Santa Fe Art Institute (2018/2025), Socrates Sculpture Park (2020), More Art (2021) and Wave Hill (2023). She was a Dia:Beacon artist-in-residence for their Teens Program (2021-2) and had a commissioned piece for the 37o Panorama of Brazilian Art at MAM-SP (2022). Her recent solo show at KinoSaito (2024) presented a retrospective of works made in the past 7 years. She will be one of the Recess Art Session program artists in the Spring of 2026. In addition to her studio practice, she participates in collaborative projects across the Americas connecting art, community, education and autonomous thinking.

Ghost of a Dream

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Ghost of a Dream is the collaborative project of Lauren Was and Adam Eckstrom founded in 2008. Ghost of a Dream's work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, MassArt Art Museum, Ackland Art Museum, Hunterdon Art Museum, and at the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center and in group exhibitions at Crystal Bridges Museum, Courtauld Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Frist Center for Visual Arts, The Mint Museum, Museum of Craft and Design, and The Textile Museum of Canada among other venues.

Ghost of a Dream has received support from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Joan Mitchell Foundation, Artist Resource Trust, Jerome Foundation. They received the first annual Young Masters Art Prize in London and have participated in artist residencies in Berlin, Basel, Beijing, France, and at venues throughout the US including Bemis Center, ISCP, Smack Mellon, Wassaic Project, the Joan Mitchell Foundation AIR in New Orleans, and Elsewhere Museum. They will attend the Rauschenberg Foundation AIR in 2024. Ghost of a Dream’s work has been featured in publications including The New York Times, Vogue Magazine, Hyperallergic, BlouinArtinfo, ArtFCity, W Magazine, Interview Magazine, and World of Interiors.

Sanie Irsay

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Sanie Irsay (b. 1996) lives and works between New York, NY and Amsterdam, NL. Irsay is centrally concerned with social and spatial structures, zones of inclusion, exclusion and exception. 

Mollie McKinley

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Mollie McKinley is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice works with non-human intelligences of the elements. She works with media such as photography, light, glass, and sculpture to materialize the ethereal and visceral aspects of nature consciousness. McKinley’s work has been shown at The Contemporary Jewish Museum San Francisco, NADA Foreland, Turley Gallery, Fridman Gallery, Pioneer Works, UrbanGlass, Independent Curators International, The Samuel Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz, The Museum of Arts and Design, Anthology Film Archives, and many others. McKinley holds a BA in photography from Bard College, and an MFA in sculpture/dimensional studies from Alfred University. Her critical writing on art and arts education can be found in Museum Teen Programs How-To Kit, published by the Walker Art Center in collaboration with the Dia Art Foundation (2023); Emergency Index Vol. 10+ (2023) and in Peer Review Vol. 3 (2025). McKinley is based in the Hudson Valley of New York, and works as a photographer and educator at the Dia Art Foundation.

Jason Mitcham

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Jason Mitcham is a visual artist whose work spans painting, drawing and stop motion animation. He has held solo museum exhibitions at the North Carolina Museum of Art and the Flint Institute of Arts. His work is included in numerous private collections, and in the public collections of the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Mint Museum, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, and the University of Florida School of Forest Resources and Conservation. He has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Art, was a finalist for the 1858 Prize at the Gibbs Museum, and has been a resident at Yaddo. He received a BFA from East Carolina University and an MFA from the University of Florida.

Megan Pahmier

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Megan Pahmier earned her BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art and her MFA from Hunter College. She has exhibited in New York at The Knockdown Center, Essex Flowers, Dutton, and TSA galleries; nationally at Vox Populi, The Luminary, and Minneapolis College of Art and Design; and internationally at Peana Projects (Monterrey, Mexico) and The Old Hairdressers (Glasgow, Scotland), among other venues and has been awarded fellowships at A.I.R. gallery, Vermont Studio Center, The School of the Art Institute, and Socrates Sculpture Park. She works in Kingston, NY.

Linda Stillman

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Linda Stillman is a Hudson Valley based artist who works in various media including drawing, painting, photography and collage. She focuses on the natural world and the passage of time.

Stillman’s work has been featured in many exhibitions in galleries and museums around the country and abroad including the Brooklyn Museum, the Dorsky Museum, the Arts Club of Chicago, and the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey.

She has been awarded fellowships and residencies at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts MARK program, the Wave Hill Winter Workspace and The Studios at Mass MoCA.

Her art is in many private and public collections such as the Dorsky Museum, Montefiore Hospital and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Stillman graduated from the University of Pennsylvania (BA), the School of Visual Arts and Vermont College of Fine Arts (MFA).

Amy Talluto

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Amy Talluto is a painter and sculptor who lives and works in Hurley NY. She was born in New Orleans, LA and earned her BFA from Washington University in St. Louis and her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. In 2018 she was awarded a NYFA/NYSCA Artist Fellowship in Painting and was an Artforum Critics Pick for her solo exhibition at Black & White Gallery (Brooklyn). She has recently shown her work at Auxier Kline Gallery, Jeff Bailey Gallery, The Garrison Art Center, the Samuel Dorsky Museum, Geoffrey Young Gallery, The Albany Airport and Wave Hill Gardens. She has been an Artist in Residence at MacDowell (NH), the Saltonstall Foundation (NY), Ucross Foundation (WY), Provincetown Dune Shacks & the Byrdcliffe Colony (NY). She participated in Norte Maar’s 2025 Counterpointe 12 collaborative ballet as a visual artist (Brooklyn). She is also the host and producer of the Pep Talks for Artists Podcast.

Safe Harbors' Ann Street Gallery programming is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and with funding from the Cowles Charitable Trust, Dominican Sisters of Hope, M&T Charitable Foundation, and TD Charitable Foundation.