My early arrival at the JCC for an Ann Katz Festival of Books event yesterday gave me the opportunity to take in "Different Strokes for Different Folks: the Work of Thaniel I. Lee and Paul Neufelder." To borrow the slogan of the Heartland Film Festival, these are "truly moving pictures." Lee and Neufelder are "mouth painters," which means they create art holding brushes in their mouths because of disabilities that prevent use of the hands. The emotional effect of these works is a combination of intuiting both the difficulty and the sense of release involved in their creation. It takes supreme effort for a temporarily able-bodied person (or TAB, as disability movement activists sometimes call those of us with normal physical function) to imagine the focus and determination that must go into producing such art. All the gestural unboundedness that artists who can use their hands at will, stepping back from their work-in-progress as needed -- not to mention the "behind-the-scenes" arrangement of painting materials in a way conducive to the free play of mind and technique -- all this is unavailable to mouth painters. I loved Lee's figurative but flat, unliteral acrylic paintings, their energetic interplay of forms barely restrained by thick, Matisse-like black outlining; his "Blue Landscape" has the vibrant turbulence of a Van Gogh. In watercolors, Lee allows himself whimsical but sometimes bitter commentary on how he looks at the world and how the world looks at him. His pervasive use of labels is ironic, with words and symbols often in softly glowing colors that work against the restrictions they imply. Neufelder arranges fully abstract, tightly interlocked forms, characteristically in bright colors, held in small, usually horizontal rectangles. The viewer is forced to contemplate the intense focus required in the creation of such thoroughly worked images, just inches away from each painstaking application of paint to surface. You must see this show!