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The Finch Mob Gallery Premiere Exhibition

The Finch Mob Gallery Premiere Exhibition

Read The Chronicle's coverage of The Finch Mob Gallery Premiere Exhibition, as well as coverage in Bay Area Lucid.

For its first exhibition, The FMAC converted an erstwhile home into The Finch Mob Gallery for the weekend of April 29th, 2006.

We kicked it off with a Gallery Opening Party on Saturday, April 29th, 2006 from 8pm-2am, followed by a Croquet Outing on Sunday, starting at 2pm at the east end of the Panhandle (Oak and Baker), and hosted a Gallery Exhibition and Performance Stage on Sunday from 5pm to 11pm.

Exhibiting Artists
Amir
Allison Armstrong
Torreyanna Barley
Jen Colasuonno
Dicky Davies
Alex "Empty"
Richard Felix
Charles Gadeken
Heather Gallagher
Marcus Guillard
Ross Holzman
Al Honig
Joseph Hren
The Improbable Orchestra
Katie Miller
Alison Monk
Danielle Mora
Montana Murdoch
Melvin Ocassio
Shawna Peterson
Les Phillips
Bonnie Reiss
Keegan Roberson
William Rutledge
Lulu Steinberger
James Swainson
Benjamin Turner
Gary Wilson
Bex Workman
Bijan Yashar
Claire Yeoman
Peter Vitale
Wonderboy
Jade

With Performances by
Dattner   :::  www.monkpunk.org
Tim Barsky   :::  www.timbarsky.com
Clide vs Crocodiles
The Genie   :::  www.myspace.com/thegenie
Jimi, from Mother's Anger   :::  www.mothersanger.com
Bunny Numpkins and the Kill Blow-Up Reaction
Kelsey Ahern
the lost missouri letters

Luminaria Project

The Finch Mob was commissioned to design and produce 750 luminaria bags for a concert series in San Francisco's Potrero Park in July of 2006.

For this project, The Finch Mob designed and created (working with members of silk screens featuring intertwined branching patterns, which were silkscreened onto 500 white bags. The remaining 250 bags were distributed to various members of the Finch Mob to paint and decorate by hand, mostly at "bag art parties". The result was 250 individual, unique pieces of art.

These bags were partially filled with sand, and a couple glowsticks (as fire is not permitted in the park), and then lined the serpentine pathways of Potrero Park, creating a strikingly beautiful effect.