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BANGOR - Just what does George Kinghorn know about the painters currently working in the Middle Atlantic States?
Not much, the University of Maine Museum of Art director admitted recently. But Kinghorn considered his unfamiliarity as just another challenge he faced while serving as a juror for New American Paintings, a bimonthly juried art exhibition in print that surveys the top contemporary painters working in the United States.
There are six regional editions of the national magazine. Kinghorn juried the edition that covers the mid-Atlantic region, which comprises Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia and Washington, D.C.
"I've done a lot of work in the larger markets like [Los Angeles] and New York, but I had very...