One&Seven is an international, multidisciplinary collective between seven artists based in New York.

Born at the intersection of chance and will at the height of the pandemic lockdown, coalesced as a unified body, while reframing individual knowledge and experiential boundaries in a dynamic interrelationship. In direct response to these formative conditions, the group sought the transformative power of manifesting latent potentialities into new realities as a means to confront chaos, to bring it into a new order of understanding and access the ‘beyond’.

One&Seven is….

  • Lisa di Donato is a lens-based artist in New York City.

    Working primarily with and through photography as a medium, tool, and language, she works across historic and digital processes, exploring the material nature of image and image as material. Many of the resulting artworks have undergone interventions or translations to become something wholly different from their origin.

    Architecture, landscape, and artifacts of various natures are her primary sites of investigation. Depicted as being no longer, nor have they become something else, yet, they are part of an endless process that manifests itself in unpredictable forms.

    She received her B.F.A. in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design. She is a 2022 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Photography and a 2021 CFEVA Visual Artist Fellow finalist. She has exhibited in the US, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, and Germany. Most recently, she was featured in The Makeable Mind, Noorderlicht Festival (NL), and in the Urbanautica (IT), Der Greif (DE) and New Observations (US) journals.

    lndidonato.com

  • Judith Lipton (born Shanghai, China) is a contemporary American artist based in New York City who for the past 40 years has developed series of works in painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and installation. The artist uses materials and forms that evoke fragility and tangibility, while referencing the body directly and indirectly. Her primarily abstract work explores themes of loss and employs forms resembling human torsos and limbs, as well as book pages, scrolls and other forms evocative of embodiment.

    Lipton’s work has been exhibited at The Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY; Broadway Windows, New York University; Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY; The John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT; Silvermine Guild for the Arts, New Canaan, CT; La Mama La Galleria, New York, NY; The Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT. Recognized for her talent as a youngster, Lipton attended the prestigious High School of Music and Art in New York City. She earned her B.A. at Queens College, and an M.F.A. from Vermont College.

    judithliptonartist.wordpress.com

  • Paris-trained sculptor, (Ecole Natonale Superieure des Beaux Arts) Leah Poller has remained true to the immutable matter of bronze and to a world of figurative sur-realism. Poller follows the path of the alchemist to create a singular, durable language in a distributed representation of life as creator, archivist of lives and beholder of expression. Poller’s subject matter ranges from sur-real portraiture - “Warrior Women” and ”Mirrors of the Soul” - to a study of the “Bed” as a visual metaphor, and “Suchness”, reflecting her journal of interaction with the common artifacts and events of her life. Spanning 4 decades and 3 continents (with museum and institutional exhibitions in Mexico -Museo Regional de Michoacan, Diego Rivera Museum-,the United States - institutions in New York, Arizona, Florida, California, etc-, Europe - France, Italy) and China – Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai) as artist and arts-activist, Poller is a citizen of the art-world, making her home in Harlem.

    www.leahpoller.com

  • Rick Raymond’s approach to photography is grounded in a contemplative process: 'to make images being fully present—in heart, mind, and body—to "what is”. His most recent work addresses the "natural intertwined with the hand of the human”, a theme he finds himself returning to time and again. Viewers perceive a reference to themselves within the silence of his photography of expansive rural landscapes, which serve as reflective settings in which to approach greater wisdom in response to the Divine's stirrings. Raymond first picked up a camera in elementary school and seriously started photographing in his mid-20s, traveling throughout South America as a Peace Corps Volunteer. He has studied at the International Center of Photography and the School of Visual Arts. He has exhibited his work in New York City. Raymond is an educator, personal coach, mentor to entrepreneurs, seeker of spiritual wisdom, contemplative photographer, advocate for elderhood, husband, and father.

    rickraymond.com

  • Farah Marie Velten is a Brooklyn based visual artist investigating the invisible concepts of time, space, and our human relationship to their connection(s). Her work visibly encounters these questions primarily through the practice of experimental and alternative analogue photographic processes. In response to the COVID pandemic, she sees our current time as an opportunity for society to reexamine the human experience, to toss "normal" out the window, and create a "new way.” She finds a resemblance to this upheaval in the process of creating a work of art. In producing a photograph, she seeks to develop new ways of seeing, asking and recording, every single time. For her, in life as in art, traces are all that remain fixed as our experience continues to grow and change, as we live and breathe and "go on". She has exhibited internationally and domestically, and many of her works have been published.

    farahmarievelten.com

  • James Weber picked up a camera and embarked on studying and pursuing photography soon after his return from combat experience as a young Paratrooper in Vietnam. It was this art form that became his catharsis from those early life experiences. Weber's approach to the camera is that it is a mechanical device enabling the recording of what he sees and perceives at any given moment. The resulting images often reveal what he could not fully comprehend at the moment of capture, and this serves to form a compelling process of capture and recognition of his world. Weber has studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York University, The New School, Parsons School of Design, and the School of Visual Arts. In his time with renowned faculty, James honed and defined a philosophic, photographic perspective that has become a reflective light within his everyday experience. It is this, his true life's Passion, he so readily and freely shares with others. Weber has exhibited his work in galleries in New York City, his beloved hometown, and Long Island, where he lives and works.

  • In Wolf’s site-specific installations, as in all his photographic work, he explores the limits of photographic representation, challenging the indexical nature of the image through an interest in the abstract and the visible and invisible. The issues of Absence, Elsewhere and the Threshold are always central themes to his work. Wolf was born in Italy; he lives and works in Milan and New York. He studied Philosophy and Psychology in Italy and Photography and Visual Arts in England, where he received the Higher Diploma in Advanced Photography from the London College of Printing. He has shown in galleries, museums and public spaces in Belgium, Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, Korea, Luxembourg, Spain, Switzerland and the United States. He teaches Photography at the European Institute of Design in Milan and is a Visiting Professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

    silviowolf.com

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