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Show Cozzens takes first in art competition The Davis County Competition Exhibition "89" began its opening . reception Sunday, March 19 and will run through April 28. Over 62 Davis County area artists entered , this show with over 175 paintings entered. The show was juried by John Erickson of the University of ! Utah and tfiere are over 85 paintings that vill proudly be exhibited during dur-ing this competition show. Lynn Cozzens of Kaysville won first place and a cash award of $300 for his entry in oil entitled, "The Back Road" David ':. Merrill of Farmington came in second, winning win-ning a cash award with his entry of oil called "Winter Forest" Robert B. Day of Kaysville won third with his oil painting entitled "South of Farmington." Honorable mentions went , to Todd Orchard, Deborah Peterson and Gibbs M. Smith. In Mr. Erickson'g juror statement he said" 'The Davis County Competition Com-petition Show, 1989' defines art as landscape with an" undercurrent of figurations. A conservatiye ton-l dency toward execution and technical techni-cal investigation led m6 to examine techniques, relationships with depth of feeling, innocence and inspiration. inspira-tion. The artist's developmental -process tends to fuse these disparate elements as skills combined with the unfoldment of inherent poten- "-' tial. ' ' , "My impulse was to award per . pie who possessed a competency in I technique along with a stylistic or ' conceptual departure from the pure reproduction of mainstream landscape lands-cape imagery. J "Tradition and visual experience construct a kind of tyranny-which is both energetic and repressive.' System I and technique simultaneously simul-taneously build the energy and the barrier which must be cracked via the self knowledge in an artist's language. When this language strikes me as a leap through technique techni-que expression or just pure audacity of idea or means, I become excited about someone grasping their own experience." For further information on this r exhibit call 292-0367. " |