Vineyard

After completing my degree,  I went to Pietrasanta Italy to carve and purchase marble.  For 8 months I lived with a family that produced wine from their own vineyard.  Sometimes I’m just lucky that way.   When harvest time came around,  I helped out and learned the very basics of winemaking.  Pick, crush, and ferment.  I’ve since learned there’s a good bit more involved, but you start there.  After returning, I learned Crane Creek Vineyards was having a harvest party at their new winery .  Well with my vast experience in such things, it seemed I must attend.  There was wine involved after all.  Well, one thing led to another and I soon planted a dozen vines and my former pasture was now a vineyard…sort of.  Twelve vines just wasn’t enough and over the years more and more were planted until roughly 1000 Cabernet Sauvignon were keeping me busy.  Unfortunately mother nature has decided to reduce the number that were producing. I’m now looking into other varieties that might work better in this area.  I do not have a winery, so no sales or tastings.

About me

 

alandrill

 

Education:

1983-87 University of Georgia BFA Sculpture, Painting

1989-91 University of Georgia MFA Sculpture

I live north of Atlanta where I can make a racket and the horses and cows don’t seem to mind. I try to go to Italy every few years for marble and to work around other artists. I generally work in a studio in Querceta, which is deep in the heart of the stone industry and also happens to be on the Riviera. Damn! There are other towns one can carve in, but after exhaustive research, I found that Querceta has the best studio to gelato ratio.  On my first trip to the region I was fortunate enough to live in the stone fort that overlooked the town of Pietrasanta. Of course I lived in the attic, and the shower consisted of a randomly clogging garden hose next to the goat pen, but hey it was once a castle. I lived with a highly entertaining family for 8 months and even with the lack of indoor plumbing and the occasional tripe dinners I would not have traded the experience. The following trip, as I had grown older and more delicate, I decided to upgrade. My residence was in a converted tool shed. The walk to the outhouse was much shorter and I had access to a real shower sans goats. More recently through the network of friends, I was able to live in a converted bakery that had its own kitchen, bathroom (indoors), living area as well as a bedroom! I almost didn’t come back. Granted it was not the character building experience of the previous trips, but I think if I get to be much more of a character someone will lock me up.

Exhibitions:

1999-present   J Costello Gallery  Hilton Head, SC

1999-present   Raiford Gallery  Roswell, GA

2004   Hampton Art Market  Hampton, VA

2002   Darious Gallery  Atlanta, GA

1999   Dana Gallery  Alpharetta, GA

1998   Pavilion Center  Virginia Beach, VA

1995   Georgia Marble Festival  Jasper, GA

1993   King Plow Arts Center  Atlanta, GA

1991   State Botanical Gardens  Athens, GA

1991   Gallery 64  Tallahassee, FL

1990    King Plow Art Center  Atlanta, GA

1990    Georgia Marble Festival  Jasper, GA

1990    Piedmont Arts Festival  Atlanta, GA

1989    Crealde Art Center  Winter Park, FL

1989    Georgia Marble Festival  Jasper, GA

91,94,97,99  Studio Leonardi   Querceta, Italy

 

 

 

 

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