Alexandre Gertsman, 2004
President, IntArt
International Foundation of Russian and Eastern European Art

It is how Jeff does it combined with what it is that sets him apart. I have asked him to be part of an international exhibition that I am currently working on and am looking forward to including several of his major paintings in this traveling museum project.

Helen Cullinan, art critic
Cleveland Plain Dealer, Dec. 15, 1998

The imprint of childhood places in our memories is exceptionally vivid. For Lipschutz, the decline of a once thriving community disintegrated appears to still inhabit the front of his mind. His paintings form explosive, deeply layered combinations of fact and foreboding.

Kevin Lynch, art critic
Madison Capital Times, Feb. 9, 1995

One wants to see the full range of haunting ways that Lipschutz has detailed the strange, agonizing process of a city dying - an empty, garbage strewn swimming pool, the Mojave sands encroaching...

These paintings possess a mythical scale and echoing emptiness that mimic Incan temples or the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the grandiose icons of dead civilizations.

Richard Kalinoski, 2001
playwright, “A Beast on the Moon”
winner of seven Moliere Awards, the “French Tonies”

In L’VRACHA, Mr. Lipschutz shows us a skewed and stark world in which an oversized woman poses as elegant. It is at once comic and bizarre. The outsized woman has no place but poses as if she does - as if she is on an elegant cruise but she is in fact in a barren desert amid ramshacks and nothingness. The painting is large and impressive and invites the viewer to investigate further. Paintings that ask the audience to investigate and then yield something after the investigation are paintings that will endure.

Stephen Fleischman, Director
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
Exhibition Catalog Statement, 1999

Lipschutz’s paintings are narrative, but also enigmatic, combining landscape, still life, and portraiture. The pure light and distinctive palette of this desert environment are a cohesive force throughout his body of work.

Roger Shimomura, 2002
Painter, and Distinguished Professor of Art
University of Kansas

What makes Jeff’s paintings so extraordinary is his employment of dissonance in the overall pictorial language of the painting, making the work distinctly and uniquely edgy.

Alex Vance, 2001
Executive Director, Bergstrom-Mahler Museum
Neenah, Wisconsin

The paintings keep on going. They push and pop through the sides. Lipschutz makes it clear that the images are momentary points of focus in an inexhaustible personal and natural landscape. Sometimes we’re inside, sometimes we’re outside, but we are always in the same place - the desert.