For Immediate Release:

Three Painters at Jay Grimm Gallery, Chelsea
Jay Grimm Gallery at 505 West 28^th Street, New York, will hold a three-person exhibition from June 10 through July 9, 1999, of paintings by Andoni Euba, Yeardley Leonard and Angelina Nasso. There will be an opening at the gallery on Thursday, June 10^th, from 6-8 P.M.

The three abstract painters share a sense of landscape, which they evoke through a dramatic compression of pictorial space. Their emphasis on foreground simultaneously creates sudden deep recessions, whereby the middle ground is eliminated. By continually shifting the viewer's perception from microscopic detail to infinite space, Euba, Leonard and Nasso create a timeless present, a specific moment which does not end.

Andoni Euba is a Spanish artist who currently lives and works in San Francisco. He has shown widely in Spain and will have a one-person exhibition at the Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco this fall. This will be his first New York exhibition. Euba's exacting technique of poured resin with pigment creates shimmering images which recall Japanese ink-blot seascapes.

Yeardley Leonard is a New York-based painter who creates abstract landcsapes using horizontal bands of color. Though relating to the geometric purity of classic Modernist abstraction, Leonard's works are based on specific landscapes. Using photographs and memory, Leonard is able to evoke a sense of a unique time and place which often relates to vistas from her native Virginia.

Leonard's work was included with Angelina Nasso in "New Models: Envisioning the Real in Abstraction", curated by Christian Eckart at the Robert McClain Gallery, Houston. Nasso, originally from Australia, studied art in San Francisco and has since moved to New York, where she received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts. Her work often is oil paint on silk, which creates a lush, saturated surface covered with hazy, subtle shifts of light. Nasso draws upon color combinations found in the natural world as a metaphor for the interdependancy of life-forms.

Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday, 11-7 P.M. until July 4^th; Tuesday through Friday, 11-6 P.M. after July 4^th. Please contact the Gallery at 212.564.7662 for images and additional information.