Theodore:Art is pleased to present Deep States,​ an exhibition informed by and circling ideas of hidden powers, control, paranoia, and distrust of the powers that be.   

Although the term “Deep State” has been applied throughout the 20th and 21st Century to various regimes in multiple countries, as a basis of comprehension we will start from the idea that if the Deep State is the unelected government, then by definition it is an undemocratic government. The artists herein suggest projections of that unelected power that affects our lives. Their responses are mysterious, documentary, hallucinatory, anxious, dreading, pissy, contemplative, and ultimately subjective.  The impossibility of visually defining the identity and limits of a mythical entity makes the act of attempting to do so both heroic and sisyphean. The Deep States elude the grasp of the mind, the long arm of the law, and the influence of societal norms.