New American Paintings

Emily Stamey

his is the second time I’ve had the privilege of jurying , so when I entered into the task, I felt at ease with the process: I would cull through images, blind to information about their makers, and submit my selections to the editor. The task is both exciting and overwhelming—there are so many great submissions (more than six hundred this time). Always I want to ask questions about each of them, but that’s not part of the process, so I settle into just looking and making decisions driven by formal properties—but wondering about content and

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