Untapped New York, July 2021
Secrets of NYC
”However, with restoration efforts well underway, the creek has had quite a few positives. Next door to the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment plant in a nondescript, 100-year-old industrial building is the art gallery Last Frontier NYC. Founded in October 2015 by Norwegian artist Sol Kjøk, the art space and work studio serves as a combined work space and presentation arena for international artists across various disciplines.”

Dance Europe, Oct/Nov 2020
Trina Mannino, “ WE ARE NATURE @ LAST FRONTIER NYC”
”Eventually, Todd makes her way to the large, shallow puddles in the middle of the roof. Again, Bausch comes to mind, particularly her works Vollmond and Arien. Todd traipses through the water like a child in a kiddie pool, soaking herself - hair and all- to the bone. […] Bookending the evening are poignant offerings by performers Sparrowhawk and Lady Kabbaz who weave ritual, audience participation and movement into a beautiful meditation on community. WE ARE NATURE reminds viewers to come back to ourselves and bodies in an effort to find connection with one another and the world around us.”

Jan-Feb, 2020
A Neighbourhood Guide to Brooklyn
The borough that birthed the global hipster phenomenon is as cool as ever — now its lesser-known neighbourhoods are shaking off their reputations and reinventing themselves as the new Brooklyn.

“For Sol Kjøk, a Norwegian-born painter, Greenpoint has been home since 1998. She was part of the first wave of artists who made the jump over the East River from Manhattan seeking affordable studios and living quarters. Today, Sol is the head of two performance spaces — her studio, Last Frontier NYC, and her home, Mothership NYC, a 10-minute walk away. The latter also hosts a rota of visiting artists from around the world who perform their works at monthly salons.

“It’s a way for local and international artists to meet and talk about art,” Sol says as we chat at her studio. She’s organised a performance: aerialist Erica Marie Mancini dangles from ropes elegantly shifting above us as a band plays avant-garde music. “My studio is called Last Frontier NYC because, well, it’s geographically on the border of Brooklyn and Queens but also it’s really the last frontier for artists in Greenpoint,” says Sol. “Rents are going up and it’s not as affordable for us anymore, so my purpose for these performances is to keep alive the artistic spirit of the neighbourhood that’s existed for the last couple of decades. But that said, the longer I’ve lived here, the more and more I love Greenpoint, Brooklyn."

December, 2018
The Best Things to Do in NYC This Week: Non Grata's Diverse Universe
@ Last Frontier NYC

“Spend your Saturday night way, way out there with legendary Estonian performance-art troupe Non Grata and friends at Diverse Universe. Non Grata's bizarre, extremely interactive performances have been likened to a "fantastical and deranged anarchic circus" and described as "pure energy being channeled ritualistically through an audience." They regularly involve abrasive noise music, demented masks, inexplicable shouting through a bullhorn, people (only sometimes the performers) getting lashed together or branded with cattle prods, and plenty of fire and explosions. The Estonians will be joined by Emotron from Georgia, MAKS from NYC, and Animals Against Humans from New Jersey—each sure to be more insane than the last.”

September, 2018
Top Ten NYC Artists Now
“Asking loved ones to pose with her in the studio, often in acrobatically challenging ways, these mediated hands-on visceral tableaus allow Sol to explore aspects of the human condition the artist finds most interesting – pushing against our limits, the risk of falling, and the co-presence of vulnerability and strength. Come out to Last Frontier, the collective space Sol stewards in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, for her Tuesday night stimulating artist salon events. The Last Frontier’s upcoming September 11th event occurs in partnership with Art 511 Magazine and Alexandra Arts.”

January 2, 2018
Brooklyn’s Little-Known Kingsland Wildflowers Is a Rooftop Oasis for NYC Wildlife
"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."

October 11, 2017
New York City opens its doors for Open House 2017:
Last Frontier NYC's roof: “(…) a garden on top of a film studio, beside Newtown Creek in Greenpoint, north Brooklyn. Its setting amid industrial buildings gives it a sci-fi feel, but it has a down-to-earth purpose. The garden is part of an environmental project to give birds and insects a green corridor through the city.”

June 1, 2017
Performance Artists Probe East Asian Identity and Power Dynamics
“On ITINERANT’s opening night, at the 19-month-old Greenpoint performance venue Last Frontier NYC, Jerico Domingo presented Consume Me, a workabout US consumerism as it relates to ethnic food and identity. Shrouded in gold satin, the Filipino American chewed on and regurgitated dinuguan, a Filipino savory dish, while an assistant burned writing into her back with a loose touch; since Domingo has dermatographia, the lightest scratch produces temporary welts on her skin.”

May 9, 2017
World Tour of the Non Grata and Al Paldroki Performance:
The Creative Process is Often Reminiscent of a Spy Movie
“NON GRATAand Al Paldroki’sperformance arton the world-wide stage often recalls spy movies. Legendary NON GRATA and performance artist Al Paldrok are once again world famous and bring together hundreds and even thousands of art enthusiasts around the world. Last Frontier NYC, hosted the Scandinavian Performance Summer in Brooklyn.” [Translated from Estonian]

January 18, 2017
7 Places to Go in NYC to Hibernate from Inauguration Day
“7. Go to a Love-in:
We all know that what the world needs now is love – not a billionaire demagogue. With that in mind, arts collective Last Frontier NYC is hosting We Shall Overcome: An Inauguration of Love on January 20. ‘Be the beauty we wish to see in the world’.”

November 20, 2015
Sketches from a Carnivalesque Weekend of Brooklyn Performance Art
“Meanwhile, a different kind of paean to the carnivalesque transpires in New York City, outside RoseLee Goldberg’s curatorial reach. On a recent weekend, with Brooklyn-based artist Miao Jiaxin as our own personal Charon, we crossed the rivers Styx and Acheron to experience the trippy underbelly of New York’s immersive performance art milieu. […] High Performance, an immersive performance put on by the Estonian collective Non Grata and Brooklyn-based Wild Torus that took place at Last Frontier. The new art space (and the work studio of Norwegian artist Sol Kjøk) is housed in a 100-year-old industrial building in Greenpoint, and while there, we’re pretty sure we experienced mythology itself in real time. […] Non Grata showed us how to save our bacon, as an anonymous naked woman made the rounds masked as a pig, while nursing a sustained flame. And they proved once and for all that if you must walk the plank, it’s always best to do so masked and bare breasted, while tap dancing the grapevine.”

November 6, 2015
A New Gallery with Epic Views of Shit Creek Will Host the Next Wild Torus Event
“The whole experience was overwhelming, almost transcendental but also starkly real, both of which are feelings that I find are wildly distinct from anything I’ve ever been inspired to feel at a white-walled gallery show. […] The show will likely be Last Frontier’s final public event before Sol takes a winter break from exhibitions and events to paint. In the meantime, here’s your opportunity to check out 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, and has no qualms about welcoming in some serious freaks.”

November, 2015
Events: HIGH PERFORMANCE
NON GRATA (Estonia); WILD TORUS (NYC);
PETER PEPPE ROSVIK; AGROFEMME (NYC);
IAN DELEON (NYC); EUU (NJ); DJ SEMITA SERPENS (NYC)
VV/LD T0RUS + guests enact participatory rituals:: hypnotic visuals:: dystopian soundscapes:: experimental sounds :: avant-garde performance art :: digital visuals :: culminates in interactive avatar rave :: otherworldly / aural titillations :: makeshift instrumental noise :: body transformations / mass corporeal contact :: immersed in environment of digital sublimity :: xXxpose your true self :: celebrate in collective dance

October 14, 2015
“Whispering Voices” at Last Frontier NYC
"A ritual for our time" - presented by six artists in Last Frontier's industrial space. This Sunday Last Frontier NYC opened its inaugural exhibit, a multi-sensory performance and installation entitled “Whispering Voices” featuring works of large-scale painting, sculpture, film, sound, and dance at their beautiful post-industrial loft in Greenpoint, Brooklyn."

October 6, 2015
ArtRx NYC
“Last Frontier NYC, a new art venue that occupies a large, former industrial space in Greenpoint, opens this weekend and celebrates its inauguration with an evening of live performances by five artists. Featuring musical works by Katy Gunn, aerial performance art by Autumn Kioti, and digital animation by Richard Borge that each takes the human form as their starting point, the evening seems like it’s going to be pretty high-energy, packed with immersive, audience-involved presentations.”

October 2015
EVENTS: Whispering Voices
“Six artists with a vision coming together from different disciplines to create a unique art experience. This multidisciplinary collaboration will take place at Last Frontier NYC: 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.”