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- Kelly B Faltermayer
- 1406 Richmond, #233
- Houston, TX 77006
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- Phone: (713) 526-6681
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- Kelly Faltermayer was born Salvador F. Bermudez in the capital of El Salvador in 1965. He moved at the
- age of 15 to Houston, Texas, where he attended and graduated from The High School for the Performing
- and Visual Arts.
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- He placed first in the visual arts category of the MusicFest competition and was awarded a $4,000
- scholarship. He was also commissioned to design and execute a mural for the Drama Department at
- HSPVA during his senior year.
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- After graduation, he attended Otis Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles, an experience he considers
- pivotal in the development of his style and techniques. After graduation, he returned to Houston, where
- he has since been employed by Sun Publications as the corporate art director overseeing production of
- special promotions and occasionally putting his illustrative skills to use in the form of front page features
- and cartoons.
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- Kelly became a naturalized American citizen in 1986, thus the name change.
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- Although commercial art is his full-time job, he prefers to do science fiction, fantasy, and horror
- illustrations -- always has, and always will.
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- The Illustrators of the Future contest gave him his first two published illustrations, one from the
- competition and one commissioned for a second story; both illustrations appeared in the WRITERS OF
- THE FUTURE, VOLUME 6 anthology (Bridge, 1990).
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- Kelly has illustrated for TOMORROW SPECULATIVE FICTION magazine (Algis Budrys, Ed.) since its
- inception in 1993, and is the only artist to have work in every issue. He has also illustrated for
- FANTASTIC WORLDS and other publications. His other areas of concentration include metal sculpture,
- ceramic sculpture, jewelry, painting, fashion design, and computer graphics.
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- Kelly cites the works of Salvador Dali, Patrick Nagel, Erte, and Boris Vallejo as being influential in the
- development of his style. The human form, male and female, is the theme around which his own work
- revolves. He enjoys "the evolution of art" through the works of Rubens, Durer, Caravaggio, Goya, and
- Rembrandt, to name a few. He also enjoys the socially relevant and revolutionary works by Van Gogh and
- the non-conservative side of the Impressionists. Japanese artwork, with its sense of orderly design, also
- influences Kelly's work.
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