Frank Kelly Freas Star Trek Art

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Biography

Frank Kelly Freas is universally recognized as one of the most prolific and popular science fiction and fantasy artists in the world. His distinguished career spans fifty years from painting covers for Astounding Science Fiction and Planet Stories in the 1950's, to visualizing the most current concepts in science fiction illustration, gaming, and motion picture concepts, as evidenced by his having twice won the readers' poll award from Analog Magazine for Best Cover of the Year in 1991 and 2000, two Chesley Awards [1990 and 1997] and the L.Ron Hubbard Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Arts in 1999. In 2000 Freas was elected a Fellow of the International Association of Astronomical Artists. One of his most recently published artwork appears on the cover of the April, 2002 issue of Analog Science Fiction/Fact Magazine. Over the years, Freas' art has graced the covers of hundreds of science fiction books and magazines, including works by Poul Anderson, Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein, Dean R. Koontz, Ursula K. LeGuin, Frederik Pohl, A.E. Van Vogt, etc. He also contributed interiors and covers to MAD Magazine from 1955 to 1962, as well as numerous other commercial illustrations, such as the record jacket for Queen's best-selling album, News of the World, and the cover of the 1992 Star Trek Annual for DC Comics. An official NASA artist, Freas' space posters hang in the Smithsonian Museum in Washington. He was also commissioned by the Skylab I astronauts to design their crew patch. Dubbed the "most popular science fiction artist in the history of the field" by the respected Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Freas is the first artist to have won eleven Hugo Awards, the highest recognition granted to a science fiction artist, having been nominated an all-time record of twenty-four times. He has also won numerous other genre awards, including the National Association of Trade and Technical Schools' Hall of Fame in 1991. In 1994, Starlog Magazine included him in their prestigious list of The 200 Most Important People in Science Fiction and Fantasy. Freas' original paintings hang in museums, universities, and private> collections. His work has been the subject of four best-selling collections: The Astounding Fifties, Frank Kelly Freas: The Art of Science Fiction, Frank Kelly Freas: A Separate Star, and his latest volume: FRANK KELLY FREAS: AS HE SEES IT, co-edited with his wife, Laura Brodian Freas. No other artist in science fiction has consistently matched his astounding record. His smooth and luminous images, amiable aliens and sexy women, have become part of today's science fiction landscape.

Awards Include

• 11 Hugo Awards
• Daedalus Award
• L.Ron Hubbard Lifetime Achievement Award• 3 Chesley Awards
• NATTS Hall of Fame
• Printers Graphics Award