Adrienne Heinrich

Adrienne Heinrich was educated at the Cleveland Institute of Art. She is represented in the permanent collections of the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art (SAMA), the Heinz Endowments, the Contemporary Art Museum in Montecatini, Italy. For many years Adrienne exhibited her artwork at galleries in New Your City, Washington, D.C. Italy, and throughout Pennsylvania. She has been an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University and Seton Hill University and has taught at Touchstone Center for Crafts. Adrienne's is represented in over 60 corporate collections and many private collections. She was been awarded nine jurors' awards in the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh (AAP). Adrienne developed a high school student outreach program for AAP called Visual Arts Career Orientation. In 2002, she was awarded the honor of Pittsburgh Artist of the Year, which included a major exhibition at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.

Adrienne Hendrich is a studio artist who works with different medias and who believes in using whatever will work best to express her message. She demonstrated this ability to convey ideas through the use of her vast knowledge of different techniques. Many of her pieces are composed of visual histories using artifacts, which carry their own mysterious stories and written documents separately obtained, but related in some way. All are open to interpretation, but imply universal archives.

Artist Statement:

 "My art reflects, and is inspired by my life situation, that of a woman with a family. It is an extension of my own struggle to grow, during a time of great change for women everywhere. The subject matter emphasizes the strength of women, especially when joined together to face personal or social problems. My artwork often has taken me into interdisciplinary media. They speak of transcendence, a quality often necessary in coping with the problems of life. To sum up the direction of my work: I want to create work, which is intensely personal, in the hope of coming close to the truth in myself and in others. It is the work of a dreamer rooted in the real world."