ART06870 is proud to announce the launch of its new location and artist residency program at in Awosting, NY . Nestled in the lush Hudson Valley just 90 minutes from NYC, this immersive residency offers artists a dedicated space to live, create, connecting with the gallery's mission of using Art as a Vehicle for Change.

The official kickoff took place at the Wallkill (Awosting), NY location on July 19th, 2025 featured a curated selection of outdoor sculptures and installations, along with a limited number of two-dimensional works. The evening will culminated in this  special industry screening of Real, presented in collaboration with the Aegean Film Festival.

The residency supports emerging and mid-career artists across disciplines, painting, sculpture, performance, social practice, installation, photography, and more-who are committed to pushing boundaries and engaging art as a tool for reflection, transformation, and community-building.

2025-2026 Artist in Residence Susan Luss

Susan’s work spans drawing, painting, performance, sculpture, assemblage, and installation. Luss’s creates assemblage and works on paper using found objects and materials immersed in dye baths, leaving imprints and traces of themselves–a build-up of forms, gestures and residues that culminate in a kind of layered geological record, an artifact of time. Her bundles, initially raw and unformed canvas, are taken outside interacting with light, wind, rain, among other elements, later she ritually folds and ties them up before immersing in dye, subsequently using the bundle to make imprints on paper and canvas. Ultimately her works are arranged in conversation with the mark-making objects that were used in their creation. Luss constantly returns to these dialogues between drawing and assemblage, reusing elements in new ways and repositioning them in a cyclical rhythm that speaks to themes of dynamic self-sustaining systems and ecological models of life and consciousness.

2025-2026 Artist in Residence Susan Luss

Alejandro Durán is an artist who transforms international trash washing ashore on Mexico's Caribbean coast into aesthetic yet unsettling artworks, awakening viewers to the threat of plastic pollution. His long-term project, “Washed Up: Transforming a Trashed Landscape,” uses photography and installation to explore the complex intersections of humanity and nature, highlighting the pervasive impact of consumer culture on the natural world. Durán engages audiences through environmental, community-based art-making workshops and speaking engagements. As National Geographic’s Becky Harlan noted, “A gorgeous UNESCO World Heritage site has a serious problem with ocean trash, and artist Alejandro Durán wants to inspire us into action.”