Beth Lipman

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BIO

American, b. 1971, New York, NY
lives and works in Sheboygan Falls, WI

Beth Lipman explores aspects of material culture through still lives, site-specific installations, and photographs. Working primarily with glass, she creates portraits individuals and our society through inanimate objects that are often broken, “flawed,” or “perfect”.  Mortality, consumerism, materiality, and temporality, have been critical issues since the inception of the still life tradition in the 17th century, and continue to be relevant her in contemporary work.

Lipman has received numerous awards including a USA Berman Bloch Fellowship, Pollock Krasner Grant, Virginia Groot Foundation Grant, and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant. She recently completed One Portrait of One Man, a sculptural response to Marsden Hartley for the Weisman Art Museum (MN). Lipman has exhibited her work internationally at such institutions as the Ringling Museum of Art (FL), ICA/MECA (ME), RISD Museum (RI), Milwaukee Art Museum (WI), Gustavsbergs Konsthall (Sweden) and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (DC). Her work has been acquired by numerous museums including the North Carolina Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art (NY), Smithsonian American Art Museum (DC), and the Corning Museum of Glass (NY).

Beth Lipman, “Distill #7” 2016, cast iron with rust patina, chrome, 8 x 12 x 5”.

ON DISTILL #7

Distill #7 combines ancient plant species such as conifer, lichen, and ferns with miniature furniture in a small vignette. The original is created in a cardboard shipping box and then cast in molten iron. Forcing the relationship between prehistoric and current geological eras, the casting process at once creates a replica and destroys the landscape, translating diorama into a fossilized depiction of the Anthropocene era. Distill #7 features symbolic objects of the sabbath, a shadow of domesticity with a bottle and clock.

— Beth Lipman

CURRENT + RECENT EXHIBITIONS

BETH LIPMAN: ALL IN TIME | Wichita Art Museum (Solo Exhibition)
Wichita Art Museum | Wichita, KS
June 24 ? September 25, 2022
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TENACITY | Chatauqua Visual Arts (Group Exhibition)
Chatauqua Visual Arts | Chatauqua, NY
July 4 ? August 24, 2021
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BETH LIPMAN: COLLECTIVE ELEGY | Museum of Arts and Design (Solo Exhibition)
Museum of Arts and Design | New York, NY
September 24, 2020 ? November 7, 2021
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CRAFTING AMERICA | Crystal Bridges
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art | Bentonville, AR
Febraury 6 ? May 31, 2021
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HOUSE ALBUM (Site Responsive Object Study/Installation)

WILD MADDER at the Art Preserve of the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (Architectural Commission)
John Michael Kohler Arts Center | Sheboygan, WI

SELECT PAST EXHIBITIONS

• MELTING POINT
• DERIVED FROM THE DECORATIVE: Works by Faig Ahmed, Beth Lipman and Bouke de Vries at Cheekwood Estate and Gardens
• CANARY SYNDROME
• REVIVE, REMIX, RESPOND

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This film was generously funded by Alturas Foundation