NEW YORK, NY.- Allegra LaViola Gallery presents the group exhibition P h a n t a s m o r g a n i c a, co-curated with Danielle Mund, on view from July 14 through July 31, 2010. The exhibition showcases the work of seven artists who examine and transmogrify ideas and materials into complex, “organic” images through drawing, painting, collage, and photography. “Phantasmorganica” is a fabricated word fusing the lexical words “phantasmagoria” and “organic”, resulting in the idea of the natural intertwined with the fantastical. The primitivistic quality of drawing makes it especially well-suited to the idea of the organic “other”. Tony Ingrisano’s intricate drawings often begin with familiar inanimate curves that seem to evolve into biotic forms, gaining detailed, snake-like features that drip, crawl, and slither across the paper. Similarly meticulous are Lauren Seiden&#14