From a 2008 press release from the Newggenheim Museum, a virtual museum in Second Life^TM, an on-line virtual world:

Through December first the Newggenheim Museum in Second Life features two giants of the real world arts scene who have made a massive impression in the second life arts community.

Included is a retrospective of Filthy Fluno's paintings in pastel and new series in oil.  Filthy, aka Jeffrey Lipsky in real life is a graduate of the Montserrat College of Art in Beverly Mass.  For the last fifteen years Jeffrey has been a most productive artist in the genre of abstract expressionism, biomorphic surrealism, and abstract interpretations of the metaverse.  His great theme began, however, when he came to Second Life three years ago.  Filthy's series of paintings inspired by Second Life avatars and experiences have brought the notice of Artnet, The Boston Globe, and galleries around the world.

Freereed Freenote, owner and director of the Newggenheim museum says:

"I have been a painter and in the arts world for more than thirty years.  These are the most beautiful paintings I have seen in any world.  I have purchased three real life works of Jeffrey's to present to my sister who is an art dealer in Sacramento, California who also looks forward to filling out her collection."

"Look, anyone who has followed the art scene in the last thirty years saw the end of painting as we then knew it.  From Abstract Expressionism, the last greatest movement in American Painting, through the color field paintings of Rothko, to the end of the end with Ad Reinhardt... just one blank black canvas.... there was no where else to go.  Greenberg the most influential art critic of those times saw it, and Arthur Danto, one of the most influential critics of our time, has re-emphasized it...  'Art is Dead.'  The easel painter is a dinosaur.  Get over it@!"

"This (cynical view) does not explain Jeffrey Lipsky, whose paintings are vibrant, alive, innovative and contemporary.  Jeffrey IS that exception we art lovers have been looking for.  These works are timeless and I am proud to know someone who can take his place in the timeline of art history, and whose works will only become more valuable and meaningful and, I believe, make an influence in the art scene of the present and that to come."

Bridging Two Worlds by Richard Minsky of Slartmagazine.com
“If blurring the lines between alternate realities is an art, then Jeffrey Lipsky (Filthy Fluno) has mastered it. But that is not what makes his work interesting. He has combined narrative painting with elements of biomorphic surrealism, symbolism, comics and graffiti. The tradition of narrative painting in America goes back to Colonial times, when landscape painting was a documentary art. If a farmer had 4 buildings, 12 pigs and 8 cows, they would all be in the scene, which was a portrait of the farm. In today’s version, Lipsky (Filthy) meets his client in Second Life®, finds out about the interests and activities of the avatar, and incorporates images that represent these into a drawing, often in pastel and charcoal on paper. His drawing may be lyrical or grating, straightforward or fragmented, depending on how the artist interprets his subject. The style reflects many influences, from Tanguy, Matta, Arp and Gorky to Marinetti, Duchamp Feininger, Picasso and Basquiat.”


A Crossover Artistby Kathleen Pierce of the Lowell Sun
“TYNGSBORO - He hasn't been in Art News, Vanity Fair or on Oprah, but wherever artist Filthy Fluno (Jeffrey Lipsky) goes, people flock. With a big afro and snaggletooth, his swagger and style are so over the top that he could rival Andy Warhol. He is the three-inch avatar of Jeff Lipsky and he lives in Second Life. The virtual reality Web site, launched in 2003, has given 10 million people a new way to express themselves. And guys like Lipsky, an artist in RL (real life), are using it to their advantage.”

Artnet.com
“[Filthy Fluno is] a cross between Jean-Michel Basquiat and "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan.

Slatenight.com
“His pastel and charcoal drawings show a fiery spirit and quickness that is truly infectious… It is easy to see the painterly influences of Kandinsky in the rhythm of [Fluno’s] colors, Rembrandt in the luminosity of the work and Paul Klee in the playfulness and sheer delight in the process.”

NewWorldNotes.com
“Filthy Fluno is an artist from Boston, Massachusetts, whose physical media are
charcoal, pastel and paper. There's a special kind of magic to his work. They're abstract narratives like the unrolled synaptic recordings of the artist's impressions of people and places. The more you look into them, the more there is to see and to connect to.”