Painter and printmaker Lea Goldman is a Holocaust survivor born in Romania who was raised in Russia, Mongolia, and Israel before emigrating in 1975 to the US. Her work is narrative, with close attention to abstract elements such as composition, texture, and form, often resembling large storybook pages. As a nomad, Lea developed a deep interest in multicultural traditions, legends, and folklore, which evolved into a personal mythology, constantly developing and expressed in an array of art images and materials. According to the art historian Elyse Speaks, “Lea has developed a visual language of translation on the uses of folklore and fairy tale, to communicate a deep investment in reverie and its possibilities . . . Her forms suggest a folk style intended less for an elite than for the folks outside the palace gates.”