FilthyFluno

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aka Filthy Fluno

New York Times Magazine - Sara Corbet
"Lipsky’s best pieces mirror the high-speed incongruity and heady lack of limits found not just inside Second Life but also at large in a furiously clicking, wildly connected 21st-century world. His use of voluptuous colors, unbalanced composition and busy, layered images suggests both the bursting, overcapitalized nature of information technology today as well as the artist’s deeper faith in the authenticity of the human relationships behind it."

Jeffrey Lipsky is an artist living in Lowell, Massachusetts who makes abstract narrative paintings and drawings. His style has been compared to Kandinski, Basquiat, Matisse, and Dove and he has been the featured in the New York Times Magazine, Art Calendar Magazine, Artnet, Artinfo.com, the Boston Globe, Minskyreport.com, The Brooklyn Rail, Art Magazine Germany, and many more.

Lipsky also specializes in using online virtual world and social networking technologies to connect to international audiences, marketplaces, and local arts communities. In 2006, Lipsky became the founder and manager of one of the world's premier online virtual art communities called Artropolis in Second Life. In 2007, Lipsky opened CounterpART Gallery in Lowell, MA, which is dedicated to the mixed reality mashup of contemporary art, virtual culture, new media, and live music. He graduated from Montserrat College of Art in Beverly MA with a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in 1999.

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING!
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.”

The Improper Bostonian
"A Pioneer in the use of Virtual Worlds..."

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.” -

A Crossover Artist by 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.”?

EXHIBITIONS
millWORKS Gallery, Lowell MA. April - present
The Brush Gallery, Lowell MA. Dec - Jan 2012
MUSEAAV, Nice, France, July 2010 - Jan 2011
The Space, Lowell MA, Aug - Nov 2009
The Spot on Thayer St. Providence RI. 2009
SOMARTS, San Francisco, CA 2009
Hello Beautiful Salon, Williamsberg, Brooklyn NY Feb 2008
Private Exhibition, Chicago, IL. Jan 2008
“The Adventures of Filthy Fluno” at the following locations.
The Revolving Museum, Lowell, MA Sept 2007
The Piper Gallery, Lexington, MA August 2007
Private Exhibit. Sanger’s Manor in Normandy France. July 2007
Jacques-Jeanneney Gallery, Pusaiye, France. July 2007
Big Car Gallery, Indianapolis, IN. June 2007
Gallery 555, Porto, Portugal. April 2007
“SL Portraits” Aho Museum, New Media Campus. July 2006
“Mirrored Drawings” Angel Dorei Museum. October 2006?
“Concerning Spirituality." Sound Installation with Joyce Zimmerman New Bedford Museum of Fine Art. New Bedford MA. April 2000
"Arty Sound Pipes" Sound Installation. Cabot Street Gallery Montserrat College of Art. Beverly, MA. June 1999