Yesterday, a strange question began circulating through the Facebook pages of a number of local artists and arts supporters: “Have you seen Frankie Garcia III?”
Garcia, an artist represented by downtown’s Rising Gallery, apparently has not been seen by friends or his gallery since May 31, the night before a show opened at Rising Gallery that he was helping to install. One comment on Facebook alledges that Garcia was dropped off in front of Rising’s Jackson St. location but never made it inside the building. His family has been in contact with friends and the gallery, and a cousin says the family has filed a missing persons report with the Dallas Police Department.
Let’s hope that Garcia has just decided to check out for a little while and get some work done, but this doesn’t sound like the artist, who is something of a Facebook gadfly. So, if you see or hear anything about Garcia’s whereabouts, contact his gallery: 214-559-4158.
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Frankie has checked out and disappeared as this several times in the past. Was he doing any drugs with anyone that eve? Did anyone check out the new facebook friend he added the day he was last seen? Did he abscond with any art or property belonging to Rising Gallery? If he has no car, why was he dropped off at Rising Gallery after an event? Did he live there too?
Was Jeremy McKane in touch with Frankie since May 31ST?
This is par for the course with him. Anybody looked in the popular drug dens?