"I want to create work, which is intensely personal, in the hope of coming close to the truth in myself and in others."

Introducing the occasional video series In the Frame: Artists in Their Own Words." PG art critic Mary Thomas and videographer Nate Guidry collaborate to give Western Pennsylvania artists the opportunity to discuss a work that is representative of their medium and their approach to art.

The work: Artist Adrienne Heinrich was among four individuals invited to be guest curators for the exhibition "Four Perspectives on Fifty Years" at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg. At the museum's suggestion, Heinrich included two of her "Prophet Messenger" sculptures, one of wood and the other of cast silicone, in an exhibition of works by women artists that she selected from the Westmoreland collection.

The artist: In her more than three-decade career, Adrienne Heinrich of Murrysville has painted, sculpted and created installation and public artworks. She was the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts 2002 Artist of the Year, and the inaugural Westmoreland Museum of American Art Exhibition Award winner, selected from the 1996 Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Annual. She was designated a Pittsburgh Master Artist in 1996. A Pennsylvania school district Artist in Residence for 19 years, she has also been an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University and Seton Hill University and has taught at Touchstone Center for Crafts. Her work is in the collections of, among others, Carnegie Museum of Art, the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, the Heinz Endowments and the Contemporary Art Museum of Montecatini, Italy.

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