Wil Haslup received an MA in Communications-Producing for Film & Video from American University in 1996, a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1990 and a BS in Fine Art-Ceramics from Frostburg State College in 1986. He lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland.
An avid blogger and developer of online experience, Wil transitioned Charm FX into an entity aimed at providing tools and information for creatives. Aims include utilizing the web for marketing and promotion of creative projects, and to raise the profile and value of creativity in society.
Wil’s art combines natural and manufactured forms, juxtaposing scale, presumed purpose and materials while exploring uses of technology, methods of production and duplication and the impacts of those on the individual’s experience of objects, space and circumstance.
ARTIST STATEMENT
“Combinations of disparate forms, sometimes within systems or patterns, highlight the visual and functional strengths and subtleties of the respective elements. That these unlikely amalgams can have a visual, conceptual and functional integrity reveals to me the potential that anything, no matter how unlikely, can happen at any time and it is through our choices that we create potentials. My aim is to produce work that encourages this perception, demands the individual consider these potentials in their own circumstances, and to promote the value of catalyzing our best outcomes.”
– Wil Haslup