ART & PROCESS: Paintings & Drawings from the Northeast Center for Special Care is an exhibition of paintings and works on paper created by artists, most of whom have TBI (Traumatic Brian Injury) and/or SCI (Spinal Cord Injury). The exhibition will be on view at Arts for All Gallery January 7 – February 21, 2003.

These artists are past and present residents at the inpatient special-care facility, the Northeast Center for Special Care in Lake Katrine, New York. There they work with program founder and fellow painter Bill Richards, using whatever means necessary -- pens taped to hands, paintbrushes held in teeth, one painting done each month -- to create. “My focus is strictly on artistic expression as a means of recreating ‘selfhood’,“ says Richards. Each day, these former musicians, executives, poets, Wall Street stockbrokers, fathers and children begin anew the arduous process of reclaiming the identity they held before accident or illness altered their lives forever, working to restore a sense of wholeness to a fractured identity