NEW YORK, NY.- Allegra LaViola Gallery presents Draw the Line, an exhibition of drawing, installation and painting that explores the theme of the line in art. In his essay “The Role of Line in Art” Wyndham Lewis speaks of the line as “the bone beneath the pulp”. This idea of the essential structure underlying the construction of a work is the starting point for Draw the Line. While Lewis was speaking specifically of drawing, this exhibition seeks to explore the line in a broader context. Marci MacGuffie’s site-specific installation takes its inspiration from bars and cells. The lines that constrain can also harbor a plethora of worlds within them, existing on the macro and micro levels. Don Gummer’s collages cut layers of line that rest over a sparkling setting, evincing a sense of the sculptural despite their attachment to