NOoSPHERE Arts Featured in National Geographic
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Live music, at venues such as Last Frontier NYC, is a common sight in Greenpoint. The area has become popular with artists and creatives, who made the jump over the East River from Manhattan seeking affordable studios and living quarters. PHOTOGRAPH BY DANIELA HOLBAN
It’s not every day that one of our own is featured in National Geographic. We are extremely proud of Broadway Stages’ resident artist, Sol Kjøk, for achieving just that. Read below the copy from National Geographic UK Neighbourhood Travel Guide, that talks about the art that Sol brings to our beloved Brooklyn. And click here for the full article, “A neighbourhood guide to Brooklyn,” that talks about several of our communities and what to do when in town. Please join us in celebrating Sol’s accomplishments as an artist and her contributions to our Greenpoint Community. Thank you, Sol, for all you do and congratulations!
A neighbourhood guide to 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 neighborhood 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.
