Throughout her 35-year career Julie Langsam has examined issues of beauty, idealization and the notion of the sublime, as well as the interconnected legacy of stylistic tropes, in work that spans painting, drawing, photography, printmaking and installation. Langsam often combines images that reference both the romantic sublime of the 19th century and the 20th century’s utopian ideals of high modernism as a way to examine ideas about ‘nature’ and ‘progress’ within the context of the 21st century. Langsam is currently editing her feature-length experimental/documentary “road movie” that, through the lens of the landscape, examines the centuries of racist policies that have shaped the United States. Etched into the landscape are reminders of the forced removal of peoples; the extraction of natural resources; the subsequent pollution of land, water, air; and economic policies that promote ‘growth’ and ‘shareholder profit’ at the expense of workers and communities. Her short film Garden State will be released this year which she filmed in her home state of New Jersey during Covid-times.