Global Graphica

Timely photo mashup of the late Steve Jobs and the Dali Lama enlarged and wheat-pasted in SoHo.

The “I Love 2 Hate LA” street art paste-up in the heart of the Nolita shopping district in downtown Manhattan, New York City.

The image of U.S. President George Washington as it appears on the American dollar has been turned into a grotesque monster in this scut-paste-copy-color wheat-paste street artwork on Spring Street near the Bowery in New York’s Nolita neighborhood.

Fresh street art work by Dain at the corner of Lafayette Street and Jersey Street in SoHo in downtown Manhattan.

We caught the street artist behind “Hanksy” in the act of putting up a large wheat-paste artwork late one night this past week on Orchard Street, in New York’s Lower East Side, just a couple of blocks away from Global Graphica HQ.

“Hanksy” is a cheeky homage to British street art star Banksy and his iconic artworks but with a twist: In Hanksy’s pieces the face of actor Tom Hanks is mashed up into the work. The artwork Hanksy is pictured pasting up in the photos here is a direct reference to Banksy’s “Sweeping It Under the Carpet,” originally put up in London.

We walked by the spot where this work was pasted the next day and it was gone. Too bad. We hope we see more Hanksy in the neighborhood.

Another Fitschen “middle finger” stencil on Spring Street in Nolita, in downtown New York City. The stencil has been covered by a dollar bill paste-up.

Wheat-paste street-art post-up of a small boy wearing and an old-school beanie cap and scratching his butt. We found this on Crosby Street in SoHo, in New York City. Funny.

Happy ice cream wheat-paste street art by artist Buff Monster on the wall next to the parking lot at the corner of Wooster and Grand streets in SoHo.

Wheat-paste street art poster of Native American in traditional garb and toting a modern, high-powered assault gun near the corner of Wooster and Grand streets in SoHo, in downtown Manhattan, NYC.

Wheat-paste street art of a super cute toy robot posted on Crosby Street in SoHo, in downtown New York City.

“Delete More, Care Less” poster on Crosby Street in SoHo, in New York.

Wheat-paste street art of Frankenstein wearing hipster plastic blinds sunglasses (a la Kanye West in 2008) at the corner of Bowery and Spring streets in downtown Manhattan.

Recent work by street art collective known as the London Police. This small work of street art is not much to get excited about, but it’s good to see TLP active and present in NYC. This work can be found at the corner of Delancey and Christie streets, near the Bowery Ballroom.

Fresh art work by Bast on Crosby Street in SoHo. It’s the first new work by the artist we’ve seen in the neighborhood in a long, long time. Where have you been, Bast?

Degraded street art and Cortelyou sticker mashup on the base of a lamp post in SoHo, in New York City.

The return of Matt Siren, but with a skull stencil image vastly different from his iconic girl image.

Yet more awesomeness at the massive commissioned art space on the wall at the northwest corner of Bowery and Houston streets in downtown New York City. In the past, epic works by international street-art superstars such as Shepard Fairey, Os Gemeos, JR and Keith Haring occupied this space originally curated by Deitch Projects art gallery in SoHo.

ASVP put up fresh wheat-paste artwork on a column at Lasso, a hip pizza-by-the-slice place that is also a small shrine of street art in Nolita, in New York City. This ASVP piece references a mini-pantheon of images the duo have created in recent years, each a stand-alone work of art wheat-pasted often throughout the city and elsewhere.

What do you get when you mash up Tom Hanks and Banksy? Hanksy, naturally, and a droll, cheeky piece of wheat-paste street art on Mulberry Street in Nolita, in downtown New York City.