[MSN] Frank's creator has artwork stolen

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Frank's creator has artwork stolen 
 
By Wolf Depner
News Staff Reporter
May 12 2006 

Penticton artist Michael Hermesh is the latest victim in a series of thefts
from Kelowna art galleries. 
The bronze sculpture titled The Tourist was reported stolen Monday afternoon
from the Art Ark Gallery in Kelowna. The bronze piece valued at $3,000,
shows a nude man sitting on a piece of bound baggage. 
Const. Annie Linteau of the Kelowna RCMP detachment said police are looking
for a slim, 5'10'' Caucasian man in his mid-30s. He was described wearing a
dark green Edmonton Eskimo football hat, a grey hoodie, a green jacket
inscribed with Jurassic Park and a dinosaur logo, jeans, white socks and
dark shoes, said Linteau.
Hermesh hopes that the publicity will help police catch the thief. 
Hermesh is certainly not unaccustomed to media attention, as the creator of
Frank, the nude statue of a baggage handler that generated international
notice during its brief residence in the Marina Way Roundabout.
Hermesh said the theft delayed his work for a day, but promised to work
through this latest distraction. 
"I carry on," he said. "I deal with silly issues on a regular basis, it
seems."
This is not the first time Hermesh has had to deal with stolen art, as one
of his pieces was stolen from an Okanagan gallery about two years ago.
Hermesh refused to release the name of the gallery because of a
confidentiality agreement. 
Hermesh said he is confident that police will recover The Tourist because
the gallery's video security cap- 
 
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