Gonzalez has painted murals all over the West Coast, from Mexico to Washington, but mostly in Oregon.

The building, the former NorthWind Fine Arts Gallery, was purchased by Stephen Ferruzza recently. Ferruzza grew up in the Adirondacks and moved back with his family from Oregon. There, he owns three pizzerias — al Forno Ferruzza. He’s planning to open an East Coast branch on Woodruff Street.

Ferruzza also owns a company called MapleAqua, which produces a carbonated drink out of maple syrup harvested at his family’s 114-year-old, 200-acre sugarbush in Beaver River.

Gonzalez has worked with Ferruzza before in Oregon and was excited to have a whole building as a canvass.

Pablo Gonzalez adds detail to his mural on the side of a Woodruff Street building with a spraypaint can on Sunday evening. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Cerbone)

“I was expecting more murals,” Gonzalez said. “I said, ‘Where are all the murals?'”

“There’s no grant money for this kind of art,” Ferruzza said.

Gonzalez also painted a mural on a food truck for the business. Both murals depict the Trinacria, the symbol on the Sicilian flag of the head of Medusa with three legs representing the three cities of Sicily.

The mural on Woodruff Street is an Adirondack Trinacria. Instead of legs, Medusa has the black with white speckled wings of a loon. Gonzalez said he saw a loon on his first day in the Adirondacks in the Beaver River and was inspired.