The U.S. is the only place on earth where poor people shun labor unions, free healthcare, & free education because rich people tell them to ("FOLLOWERS 2020", 3ft8"x5ft9", charcoal & graphite on paper)

"I want to remind you where the REAL crime is: it's in the Oligarchs taking $170 Billion of our money from healthcare & food assistance & public programs, & funneling it into a secret police program"- Rep. AOC ("LAND OF THE FREE 2025", 26.25"x46.25", charcoal & graphite on paper) 🚫🧊🇺🇸

#happyday 😘🤣😍😊🥰😁😉

#BoxingDay2025 “PANDORA’S BOX 2011”, 39”x28”, charcoal and graphite on paper

‼️I have a piece in this group show opening in January at the Torrance Art Museum (3320 Civic Center Drive Torrance CA 90503). It’s called “POST TRUTH “, an 8ft by 9 ft drawing. Lots of powerful work in this show. Try not to miss it ‼️

#SeasonsGreetings2025 🎄⛄️🎁

#trumpsamerica🇺🇸 “ACTIVE SHOOTER 2025”, charcoal and graphite on paper, 36”x38.5”, ©Laurie Lipton

Monday:MASS SHOOTING Tuesday:MASS SHOOTING Wednesday:MASS SHOOTING Thursday:MASS SHOOTING Friday:MASS SHOOTING Saturday:MASS SHOOTING Sunday:MASS SHOOTING Republicans: “We gotta do something about Trans people playing sports” ("AMERICA IS A GUN 2022", 33"x46.25", charcoal&graphite on paper)

A President who has kinder words for Vladimir Putin than Rob Reiner does not deserve to lead the free world ("POST TRUTH 2017", 4ft10"x8ft9", charcoal & pencil on paper, detail)

What I’m working on now… not quite finished, but getting there: "ACTIVE SHOOTER 2025", 35"x38.5", charcoal & graphite on paper, a portrait of the USA, ©LaurieLipton #workinprogress #activeshooter

#BreakingNews "Wages are down, prices are up, and terror & uncertainty plague the Nation, but first our top story: Why aren't women having more babies?" ("BREAKING NEWS 2022", 45.75"x76", charcoal and graphite on paper, with details, ©LaurieLipton)

"Before we discuss raising taxes on the poor, adding $1 trillion to the deficit, taking health insurance away from 13 million, raising premiums by 10%, defending treason, & protecting a pedophile, let's begin with a prayer" ("BLINDS 2020", 22.25"x37.75", charcoal&graphite on paper, ©LaurieLipton )

Endless scrolling induces permanent craving ("SCROLLING 2024", 41.75"x32.5", charcoal & graphite on paper)

#workinprogress This is how the USA feels to me right now. I know there are many different aspects to this huge country, but this is how it FEELS, at this point in time. To me (“ACTIVE SHOOTER 2025”, 35"x38.5", charcoal & graphite on paper, work in progress)

"Medical science has made such tremendous progress that there is hardly a healthy human left"- Aldous Huxley ("PharmaSuitAbles 2025", 26"x38.4", charcoal & graphite on paper, ©Laurie Lipton)

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit"- Aristotle

Did you peak in High School? Do you consider yourself an "Alpha Male" even though women can't stand you? Are you afraid that your legacy is missing committing domestic terrorism? JOIN ICE‼️🇺🇸 (you're not "Pigs". Pigs are smart): "LAND OF THE FREE 2025", 26.25"x46.25", charcoal & graphite on paper 🚫🧊

“When it comes to silencing women, Western culture has had thousands of years of practice “- Mary Beard (“MUM’S THE WORD 1987”, 39”x27.5”, pencil on paper)

#BlackFriday Everything is fine. Keep shopping. ("CLOSED CIRCUIT 2007", 67"x51", pencil on paper)

#Thanksgiving ....bringing out the best in family dysfunction since 1863 ("THE UNSPEAKABLE DINNER PARTY 1989", 30.5"x27", pencil on paper) #happythanksgiving 🍗

"One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry & energy to spend on hating. They build it up like coral insects"- Sylvia Townsend Warner ("Mob 2007", 30.3"x43", pencil on paper)

"The person born with a talent they were meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it"- Goethe

QUIET PIGGY‼️‼️(“MOUTHPIECE 2017”, 37.5”x57”, charcoal and graphite on paper) #quietpiggy

EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: the Epstein files after Trump’s sudden call to release them (his name is not mentioned once!!) #epsteinfiles #shutuppiggypotus

The problem is not people being uneducated. The problem is that they are just educated enough to believe what they’ve been taught, & not educated enough to question what they’ve been taught (“ FOLLOWERS 2020”, 3ft8”x5ft9”, charcoal & graphite on paper)

Two photos taken from the audience while I was Guest Lecturing at California State University, Chico, last Thursday. What a gorgeous campus and fabulous people!

"Many of us become accidental activists. Not out of rage, but out of heartbreak. Because somewhere along the way, we realized silence helps no one. Not the earth, not our children, not each other"- Paul Avellino ("LAND OF THE FREE 2025", 26.25"x46.25", charcoal & graphite on paper)

“By the time this is all over, we’re going to find out that Epstein was in the Trump Files “- Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social (“POST TRUTH 2017”, 8ftx9ft, charcoal and graphite on paper) #trumpisontheepsteinlist #lockhimupalready‼️

I’m getting older, not wiser #oneoutoftwo #happybirthdaytome🎉 #timeflies✈️

“ It was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with “- Anais Nin (“DELUSION DWELLERS 2007”, 38”x48”, charcoal and graphite on paper)

Stop worrying about everything. "RAISE YOUR VIBRATION, FFS‼️ 2025", 24.8"x25", charcoal & graphite on paper

#joyscrolling #midterms ("SCROLLING 2024", 41.75"x32.5", charcoal & graphite on paper)

"Because whatever has happened to humanity, whatever is happening to humanity, it is happening to all of us. No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain & terror, we live in one world"-Alice Walker ("COLLATERAL DAMAGE 2005, charcoal & pencil on paper)

"No art is possible without a dance with death"-Kurt Vonnegut ("DANCE HALL OF THE CORPSE COUPLES 2007", 33"x29.5", charcoal & graphite on paper) #DiadelosMuertos

#trickortreat👻 (“FACELIFT 2005”, pencil on paper, 21”x16”) #halloween2025🎃👻🕷️🦇

"Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared"- Diary of Anne Frank, Jan.13, 1943 ("LAND OF THE FREE 2025", charcoal&graphite on paper) #🚫🧊

This entire "presidency" is like being tied to a chair & watching a toddler play with a loaded gun ("NANNY'S BOY 2020", 17"x15.5", charcoal & pencil on paper)

#NoKingsDay One thing we should never do is bow down to an administration fueled by hate, racism & fascism. I would rather stand alone with integrity than join a crowd built on ignorance & cruelty‼️ ("LAND OF THE FREE 2025", 26.25"x46.25", charcoal & graphite on paper, ©LaurieLipton) 🇺🇸

The world will try to convince you that art is a luxury. It is not. Art is medicine. It heals in ways that cannot be measured or explained. It reaches places therapy cannot touch. What you do is not optional. It is essential.

“A government shutdown falls on the President’s lack of leadership. I mean problems start from the top & they have to get solved from the top. A shutdown means the President is WEAK!”-Donald Trump 2013 (“POST TRUTH 2017”, 4ft10x8ft9”, charcoal & graphite on paper) #governmentshutdown

"BUT I LIKE LITTLE GIRLS‼️ LEAVE ME ALONE❗" ("NANNY'S BOY 2020", 17"x15.5", charcoal & pencil on paper, commissioned by an Australian art collector)