BOUNTIFUL — When it comes to art, everyone always ends up choosing their own first place winners.

At the Bountiful/Davis Art Center’s (BDAC) Statewide Art Show, running now through April 3, there are a list of winners selected by an official judge. Gallery-goers, however, shouldn’t let this limit their exploration of the exhibit, which offers an eclectic mix of styles and subjects offering up a wide range of potential prizewinners to suit everyone’s personal tastes.

Though none of them won prizes, several of the three-dimensional pieces at this year’s exhibit were particular stunners. Curt Fuller’s simply titled “A Crooked Lidded Box” is a wooden cup and lid that looks like it was designed for an elven princess. From the broken eggshell edge to the quirky crooked stem and handle, it’s the perfect combination of nature and imagination.

Two stone and steel sculptures, both created by Doug Adams, are swirling, kinetic fantasies that look like a visual interpretation of music. The strands of metal curving and twisting around each other seem ready to lift themselves free of the ground at any moment, soaring through the heavens like the notes that feel like their inspiration.

When you catch sight of Dana Sohm’s “Security Cart-Disney Concert Hall,” you may have to double-check the information card a couple of times before you let yourself believe that it really is indeed a photograph. The concert hall’s luminous glow makes it seem like a magical cartoon castle, but the best part is the subtle humor of the tiny, plain security cart parked right in front of it.

It’s also worth taking a peek at some of the winners, even if it’s just to appreciate their other art. Carl Oelerich’s honorable-mention-winning photograph of a woman titled “Pinar Del Rio, Cuba,” is well done, but I find the old man in “Vinales, Cuba” far more interesting. The best part is the mixture of amusement and disbelief on the old man’s heavily-mustached face, as if he can’t quite understand why the crazy man with the camera wants to take his picture.

Mike Belden won first prize for his “Miles II,” but his “Salt Lake Peninsula” hanging next to it will probably be far more preferable to gallery-goers. Best appreciated from a vantage point of a few feet away, the painting gives the lake a kind of wide, wild beauty that years of drought have stolen from the lake itself.

Sometimes, though, the judge’s taste does seem to be on the right track. Laurel Casjen’s second-place-winning photograph, “Cottonwood, San Rafael Swell,” takes the color out of a single tree to focus on the subtle poetry of light and shape. It forces us to look at something familiar (and as such, often ignored) in a new and beautiful way, which is worth an artistic prize any day.