Lipman's work explores aspects of material culture through still lives, site-specific installations, and photographs. Her hand-sculpted glass compositions are portraits of individuals and our society through inanimate objects. Every object created, whether broken, “flawed,” or “perfect” is incorporated into the final composition, literally capturing a moment in time. The process of creating defines the final composition; mimesis is abandoned. Mortality, consumerism, materiality, and temporality, critical issues since the inception of the still life tradition in the 17th century, continue to be relevant.
Lipman lives and works in Sheboygan Falls, WI. She has received numerous awards including a USA Berman Bloch Fellowship, Pollock Krasner Grant, Virginia Groot Foundation Grant, and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant. Recent works include Secretary with Chipmunk, a multipurpose sculpture for the Chipstone Foundation (WI) and One Portrait of One Man, a 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), Kemper Museum for Contemporary Art (MO), Smithsonian American Art Museum (DC), Jewish Museum (NY), Norton Museum of Art, (FL), and the Corning Museum of Glass (NY).

BETH LIPMAN: BOTTLE AND BLECHNUM FERNS, 2019, glass, adhesive, 16 x 24 x 18 in. 40.6 x 61 x 45.7 cm.

BETH LIPMAN: CANDLESTICKS II, 2016, c-print - face mounted to acrylic, edition of 3, 30 x 58 in. 76.2 x 147.3 cm.

BETH LIPMAN: WHATNOT II, 2010, glass, paint, adhesive, 84 x 42 x 30 in. 213.4 x 106.7 x 76.2 cm.

BETH LIPMAN: SPHENOPHYLLUM AND CHAINS, 2019, glass, wood, metal, paint, adhesive 54 x 50 x 38 in. 137.2 x 127 x 96.5 cm.

BETH LIPMAN: CLUSTER #20, 2020, black glass, adhesive, 5 x 10 x 9 in. 12.7 x 25.4 x 22.9 cm.

BETH LIPMAN: DISTILL #22, 2015, brass with plating, 3.5 x 6.5 x 3 in. 8.9 x 16.5 x 7.6 cm.

BETH LIPMAN: NORTHERN MONKSHOOD COMPOSITION, 2020, glass, wood, metal, paint, adhesive, 98 x 68 x 30 in. 248.9 x 172.7 x 76.2 cm.

BETH LIPMAN: VESSEL WITH HANDLES AND BOWLS OF EGGS, 2015, lambda print, face mounted to plexi, edition of 3, 32 x 29 in. 81.3 x 73.7 cm.

BETH LIPMAN: FERNS AND FISH, 2019, glass, adhesive, 14 x 28 x 20 in. 35.6 x 71.1 x 50.8 cm.

BETH LIPMAN: STILL LIFE WITH PLATE OF CHEESE AND BEER STEIN, 2011, lambda print on plexiglass, edition of 3, 26 x 39 in. 66 x 99.1 cm.

BETH LIPMAN: GAZING BALL, BEAVER DAM, LAKE CLARK, AK, 2014, c-print - mounted to aluminum with gloss laminate, edition of 3, 36 x 25 in. 91.4 x 63.5 cm.

BETH LIPMAN: DISTILL #8, 2015, cast iron with plating and rust patina, 11 x 8 x 6 in. 27.9 x 20.3 x 15.2 cm.

BETH LIPMAN: GAZING BALL WITH LEMON AND FLY, 2014, c-print - mounted to aluminum with gloss laminate, edition of 3, 35 x 22 in. 88.9 x 55.9 cm.

BETH LIPMAN: CLUSTER #17, 2020, black and clear glass, adhesive, 8 x 15 x 13 in. 20.3 x 38.1 x 33 cm.

BETH LIPMAN: DISTILL #16, 2015, cast iron, chrome, rust, enamel, 8 x 8 x 6 in. 20.3 x 20.3 x 15.2 cm.

BETH LIPMAN: STILL LIFE WITH GRAPES, 2013, c-print - face mounted to acrylic, edition of 3, 29 x 36 in. 73.7 x 91.4 cm.

BETH LIPMAN: CLUSTER #18, 2020, glass, adhesive, 8 x 15 x 10 in. 20.3 x 38.1 x 25.4 cm.

BETH LIPMAN: CLUSTER #21, 2021, black glass, adhesive, 6 x 12 x 10 in. 15.2 x 30.5 x 25.4 cm.