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Last Frontier NYC

NOoSPHERE Arts
The decision to close the NOoSPHERE Houston Street gallery in 2016 arose from an offer to the founder, Norwegian-born artist Sol Kjøk, to use a raw industrial loft inside a sound stage complex on Kingsland Avenue, Brooklyn, as her personal painting studio. She took the opportunity to turn the space into a collaborative arts platform she called Last Frontier NYC, describing the new venue as “a campfire where the creative tribe can share its stories." The venue? was described in the Village Voice as "a huge, charismatic former industrial space with a rich patina built up on the exposed brick over the past hundred years, located at the final outpost of industrial New York in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn.”

Photo of Last Frontier NYC Fourth picture label: Last Frontier NYC arts space on Kingsland Avenue in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

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Location
Today, the Kingsland Wildflowers roof garden spans the roof of a warehouse at 520 Kingsland Avenue which also houses Last Frontier NYC, a private art studio which frequently serves as a “presentation arena for international artists across multiple disciplines.”

https://untappedcities.com/2018/01/02/brooklyns-little-known-kingsland-wildflowers-is-an-rooftop-oasis-for-nyc-wildlife/

https://untappedcities.com/2018/01/02/brooklyns-little-known-kingsland-wildflowers-is-an-rooftop-oasis-for-nyc-wildlife/

In Bedford and Bowery, Nicole Disser

he best view of the New York City skyline from up high I’ve ever seen.

Newtown Creek - shit creek

The gallery, located alongside Newtown Creek, is squeezed between sound stages below, a recycling plant beyond a chain link fence with big trucks moving in and out seemingly at a constant rate, and the biggest wastewater treatment plant in the city (

in the eyes of the froufrou upscale art world, Greenpoint still seems to be “way out there.”

100 year old factory building

"one of those rare spaces that maintains the rough edges of a former factory– peeling paint, raw brick details and all– while moving in some attractive improvements like a glistening poured-concrete floor"

http://bedfordandbowery.com/2015/11/a-new-gallery-with-epic-views-of-shit-creek-will-host-the-next-wild-torus-event/

Roof of Last Frontier NYC - Garden

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2017/oct/11/new-york-city-opens-its-doors-for-open-house-2017-in-pictures

https://untappedcities.com/2018/01/02/brooklyns-little-known-kingsland-wildflowers-is-an-rooftop-oasis-for-nyc-wildlife/

Past Events
Last Frontier NYC inaugurated its public programming in the fall of 2015 with the multidisciplinary collaboration Whispering Voices: a Ritual for our Time, an immersive live installation of sound, movement, images, and forms involving six artists. The inaugural show at Last Frontier, Whispering Voices, for example, was billed as a “collaborative installation” made possible by six independent artists working in a variety of mediums including animation, sculpture, performance art, visual art, and music production. “It’s fun when you can toss all those ingredients into the pot and make kind of a new thing– that’s the kind of thing I really want to do,” Sol explained.

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Fifth picture label: The multimedia event, Whispering Voices: a Ritual for our Time in October, 2015.

http://beautifulsavage.com/culture/whispering-voices-last-frontier-nyc/

East Asian performance art festival

https://hyperallergic.com/382516/performance-artists-probe-east-asian-identity-and-power-dynamics/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=swPerformance%20Artists%20Probe%20East%20Asian%20Identity%20and%20Power%20Dynamic

The Mothership NYC
Mothership NYC is an international artist collective founded in 2005 in Greenpoint, Brooklyn featuring a live-work space and a rooftop stage with a view of the Manhattan skyline.

Reception
Sol's and Last Frontier NYC

She described her ethos as similar to Wild Torus’ aims: “to create contemporary rituals and participatory environments and immersive scenarios where people are part of a group happening.”

“I have no curatorial input in the show at all,” Sol explained. “So basically, I have faith in them. I’ll just be here as a viewer– What are we going to get to see? I don’t know.” Clearly Sol’s openness to the Dionysian is still alive and well at Last Frontier.

“It’s a five minute bike ride from my house,” Sol said of Last Frontier, located inside a massive, 100-year-old industrial building that also houses Broadway Stages, an ever-expanding network of production facilities and sound stages. (The building actually became a Superfund site after it was contaminated by the Exxon-Mobil oil spill and has since been cleaned up.)

I must have looked like it (lost– not a sweetie) because I was gazing up at those bulbous poop containers aka the wastewater treatment plant’s “digester eggs” (which, if you ask me, isn’t any more delicate of a term). They look like gigantic, swollen, silvery water balloons impossibly hovering in midair and they’re hypnotic those poop eggs. I had arrived at sunset, at a time when the eggs burst into color, glowing blue and purple throughout the night. “It’s actually an art installation,” Sol explained of the lighting.

http://bedfordandbowery.com/2015/11/a-new-gallery-with-epic-views-of-shit-creek-will-host-the-next-wild-torus-event/

Non-Grata

http://eestielu.goodnews.ee/maailmatuuril-oleva-non-grata-ja-al-paldroki-performance-loomisprotsess-meenutab-sageli-spioonifilmi/

on Sol Kjok's wierdness

Sol’s own work consists of massive paintings depicting entangled bodies of bald, nearly identical humanoid creatures frozen in the midst of physics-defying acrobatics. The figures appear to be preparing for a sci-fi future, suspended inside jars of primordial goo. Or maybe they’re trapped in a terrarium, where the progeny of an alien invasion and inter-species reproduction can view what’s left of the evolutionary misstep (humans) as nothing more than colorful sea monkeys. In a way, Sol’s work– at once grotesque but profoundly beautiful– induces the same kind of dizzying disorientation that Wild Torus’ manages to achieve with the human yarn balls they orchestrate.

Last Frontier NYC in the Press
•http://www.noosphere-arts.nyc/press/