“There is nothing precious or tentative about Jody Mussoff’s colored-pencil drawings.  They are large, assured, and aggressive, filled with intense, neurotic figures rendered in vivid, sometimes garish hues and placed in peculiar and puzzling situations ... What makes Mussoff’s pictures more than mere showcases for her impressive technique or exercises in perversity is her sense of composition and the vitality of her figures …”                                                                             

Nancy Heller

ArtNews, Sept. 1998

“There is a word to describe Jody Mussoff’s graphic style: emphatic.  There’s something emphatic about the sure lines she uses to describe her figures, about the postures she chooses for them and also about the fact that they are always women.  Their solitude too is emphatic ... Something that sets Mussoff’s nude studies apart from the work of so many other artists ... is the fact that all of her subjects have an identity...”

Michael Welzenbach

The Washington Post, Feb. 8, 1992

“For years, the subject of [Mussoff’s] agitated colored-pencil drawings has been herself, but it is the self as Everywoman, awkward, self-conscious and endearingly vulnerable ...the artist’s frazzled persona appears in a variety of guises ... Humor keeps the viewer entertained throughout this obsessive quest for the self, while the essential truthfulness of [Mussoff’s] endeavor keeps it fresh.  Each image is a surprise.”

Alice Thorson

The Washington Times, May 28, 1987

“Jody Mussoff’s women look like no one else’s.  She says she invents them, but those she has portrayed ... catch our eye so boldly, and stare at you so knowingly, they seem the stuff of life -- or, if not of life, of myths or severed dreams ... Mussoff’s drawing is first-rate.”

Paul Richard

The Washington Post, Nov. 30, 1985

“... Jody Mussoff’s drawings are positively rowdy ... headlong insights are caught on the run, tumult and disorder are never far away, and there is a continual overlap between everyday life and nightmare.  These drawings are also very funny in a wry sort of way, and the movement of the artist’s hand is big and bold, as befits the subject matter.”

John Russell

The New York Times, Feb. 14, 1983

“... Certainly, Mussoff’s strong design sense, punchy draftsmanship and gritty, rebellious social attitude make her one of the more interesting representational artists to come down the pike in recent years.”

Joe Shannon

Art in America, Sept. 1983