“Static” (2013) – New York City - Solo Exhibition

Casey Baugh’s third solo exhibition, Static (2013), marked a conceptual departure from his earlier, more intimate portraiture, as he turned his attention to the evolving intersection between humanity and technology. Through a series of visually arresting figurative paintings, the exhibition explored the tension between the synthetic and the organic, the digital and the corporeal, posing quiet questions about identity, isolation, and the increasingly blurred boundaries of modern existence.

The works in Static were rendered primarily in a restrained, cool palette dominated by indanthrene blue and deep black, creating an atmosphere of detachment, stillness, and ambient unease. Figures appear suspended in space, often partially obscured or fragmented, evoking the ghostly imprint of bodies caught between presence and signal, between human warmth and digital sterility. Baugh’s painterly realism, sharpened by years of technical mastery, was here used to interrogate not just what we see, but what we’re becoming.

Static was both a reflection of its time and a prescient meditation on the future, expressing, through paint, the quiet dissonance of an increasingly virtual world. The exhibition was met with critical acclaim and further solidified Baugh’s position as a realist painter capable of navigating contemporary themes with psychological depth and formal innovation.