For Independent 2025, The Meeting—the gallery founded by Bill Cournoyer which showed photographs from my Private series last year—presented My Fellow Americans, my series comprising 50 portraits of Trump voters. The press release for the exhibition, written by John Thomson, offered a perfect framing for the work:

“Lippy mixes the conceptual with the documentary—he uses the chance and randomness of Google searches to develop a snapshot of the Trump constituency. His inquiry peers across the political divide: he enters the other’s political bubble, putting a face to those in the movement he opposes. Infusing himself into the closed circuits of self-actualization that LinkedIn and Facebook sustain, he figures an alternate universe that’s more than familiar.
   My Fellow Americans saw Lippy pick up brush and paint for the first time with the skillful results of a bold enthusiast. Each face beams with the truth—albeit an unverifiable one—that portrait painting bestows upon its subject.
   He channels Alex Katz’s flatness and attenuation of affect, giving his subjects, despite their diverse looks, a visual if not psychic repetition. One that echoes what cultural critic Siegfried Kracauer saw in 1920s American popular culture: the surface display of a ‘mass ornament.’
   Yet Lippy’s project holds ambiguity close to its heart. Is the artist—in gouache, wax crayon, colored pencil, graphite, Sharpie, and paint pen on board—humanizing his subjects, the political force they form, and, ultimately, the man they placed at the country’s helm? Or is he indicting them, calling out their misplaced sense of duty? Giving them a relatable banality that Hannah Arendt may have called a pragmatic amorality?” 

The installation, which also featured a limited-edition print fashioned from disposable palettes used during the painting process, ran from Thursday, May 8, to Sunday, May 11. It received coverage in The New York Times and ARTnews, and, most importantlyl, elicited a range of responses from—and dozens of fascinating conversations with—the steady stream of visitors who dropped by the booth over the course of the fair.