The Dallas Art Fair on Monday announced the creation of the Dallas ArtPrize, an annual award recognizing an artist who has made a significant contribution to the cultural and intellectual landscape of contemporary art.
Artist John McAllister is known for his colorful landscape paintings.
James Fuentes Gallery
The inaugural recipient of the $20,000 prize — sponsored by Bank of America — is John McAllister, whose work has been exhibited internationally for nearly two decades.
A native of Slidell, Louisiana, McAllister lives and works in Florence, Massachusetts. He earned a bachelor of fine arts degree from the University of Texas-Austin in 1999, and a master of fine arts degree from ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, California, in 2007.
“Texas holds a very special place in my heart, because it is where I developed the certainty that I would be an artist,” McAllister said in a news release. “Attending the University of Texas and making frequent trips to Dallas to visit the museums had a huge impact on the early foundations of my practice.”
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