Urban Adventure photographer Isaac Wright arrested on NYC Solo Show -EBUT

Urban Explorer photographer Isaac Wright let his solo show debut demolished due to an arrest. A spectator said, “Make people hate the police even more.”

Only two hours after the solo debut of Wright, ‘Coming Home’, in the Robert Mann Gallery in Chelsea in New York City on May 14, four NYPD officers came in To arrest him, Art news reported. The next day, a police spokesperson confirmed that Wright, the former parachutist, known as ‘Drift’, was released from detention and accused of third -degree criminal violation, a crime of class B under the State Act of New York.

“The opening evening was a huge success, in which enormous interest and energy of the audience was drawn,” said Robert Mann, the founder of Robert Mann Gallery, in a statement. “Although it was characterized by unexpected events, we continue to be dedicated to the vision of Isaac and invite everyone to experience the exhibition first hand. As history has shown, the art that challenges and confronts is often the art that changes how we see the world.”

Eyewitnesses who attended the opening saw a suspicious woman lurking in the gallery before the arrest of Wright. Later it was revealed that she was an undercover agent who waited to inform the police of the presence of the photographer.

“People later talked about it as if it were a honeypot,” Edward Zipco, co -founder of Superchief Gallery NYC & LA, told NFT -Nieuws. “Apparently she was undercover. After about half an hour she gave the police.”

Colleague Urban Explorer Vitaliy Raskalov attended the opening and said he “had never seen anything like that.”

“The police could have called him or went to his house,” he said. “To arrest the man at his own exhibition, for cameras and everyone, it just makes people hate even more.”

Wright is famous for scaling fences and skyscrapers to take photos at high altitudes, including his famous shot from the Queensboro Bridge in New York. His recent arrest at the art show is not his first because he was imprisoned for four months in December 2020 after illegally climbing three structures in Cincinnati.

The police were looking for several states and even closed a highway to arrest him. But in retrospect, Wright describes his time in prison as a surprisingly liberating experience. After his prison release from 2021, his artworks started to reach thousands of dollars in the midst of the NFT -BOEM.

“Being locked up turned out to be a gift,” he’s recently told The New York Times. “It was motivating. I couldn’t understand the freedom I tried to express until I lost everything and was forced to fight for it.”

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