Marti’s on Main kicks off 13th season of art shows in Albion
Photos by Tom Rivers
ALBION – Kim Martillotta Muscarella, right, talks with Elizabeth Penafiel during the opening reception for an art show on April 21. Penafiel’s father, Robert Wisner, is one of the featured artists in the new show. The wooden sculpture in the foreground was created by Richard Bannister of Barre.
Muscarella has organized a new season of art shows for Marti’s on Main. This is her 13th year of doing the shows and the third season at the former Cornell Cooperative Extension building at 20 South Main St. Mantis is open Fridays and Saturdays from noon to 4 p.m.
This year she is welcoming artists who haven’t shown before at Marti’s.
The works in the current show will be on display until May 31. A new show featuring Jill Gussow, Richard DellaCosta and Will Robinson will be featured from June 16 to July 31. The season then concludes with a show featuring works by Carrie Boyer and Sarah Hyatt from Aug. 18 through Sept. 30.
Robert Wisner is shown with a painting he did in the 1970s showing the inside of the Orleans County Courthouse dome.
“I was fascinated by the architecture,” Wisner said about the dome.
Wisner, a retired art director who worked in advertising in Rochester, has about 20 paintings on display at Marti’s including this one of “Penelope’s End,” an egg tempera painting of Orleans, Cape Cod.
Wisner also painted this watercolor of canal boats in Albion.
This is his first show in Albion in more than 40 years. His first show was in the former Swan Library in Albion. His work is often shown at galleries in Honeoye Falls and in Cape Cod.
Colette Savage of Rochester has been a plain air landscape painter the past 20 years. She is shown with some of her landscape painting at Marti’s. Savage has 50 paintings on display featuring many scenes in Rochester and the Finger Lakes.
Tom Zangerle of Medina greets Colette Savage and compliments her for the many landscape paintings in the show.
Nancy Radzik turned this dollhouse into The Dead Artists’ Residence. It includes rooms featuring famous artists Vincent van Gogh, Frida Kahlo, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Jackson Pollock and a garden in the style of Claude Monet.
Radzik painted the shingles of the doll house in the Starry Night style of van Gogh.
Radzik decorated the rooms featuring prominent artists including Frida Kahlo. Radzik spent several months on the project. She is a resident of Ontario in Wayne County and became friends with Muscarella through the Brockport Art Guild. Radzik also makes assemblage sculptures from drift wood.
