Ellen LeBow’s greatest distinction as an artist is her seemingly endless creativity and the broad diversity of her ouevre which embraces a wide range of media and styles often taking them in radical new directions with fearless inventiveness and verve. LeBow’s work is a series black and white drawings executed in ink on scratchboard. In this medium, the artist paints on special white board in ink and then scratches the drawing through the black, inked areas as in dry point etching. “Drawing was how I began to grasp the world at an early age. I understand it as my element, striving to make a stroke as immediate and alive as a breath.” LeBow was a 2010 recipient of the Pollock Krasner award and the 2014 Massachusetts Culture Council Award.