Global Graphica

Four5 wheat-paste poster in deep TriBeCa Nolita, in downtown New York City. The image is striking in its high-contrast black white image of a woman disturbingly holding an open pair of scissors to her face.

This awesome-since-Day-One “Down to Earth” wheat-paste poster by artists A.S.V.P. is on Greene Street in SoHo, downtown New York City. The retro-80s People’s Republic of China imagery of a baby astronaut is defaced by an SWLF  heart sticker.

The wonderfully retro-iconic “Monopoly Man” paste-up by Alec. The character was also known as “Mr. Monopoly.” But his official name was Rich Uncle Pennybags and he was the mascot of the famous Monopoly board game. Alec put this poster up in New York City’s Meat Packing (MePa) District, on the block that runs along 14th Street, near all the new neighborhood landmarks like the Standard Hotel, High Line Park, and Hotel Gansevoort. There are a few of these Pennybags  wheat-pastes in the nabe and elsewhere downtown.

Wheat-paste street art in SoHo: A large black-and-white photo of Brazilian soccer legend Pele and Rolling Stones’ frontman and rock legend Mick Jagger meeting in New York City in the late 1970′s.

Beautiful graphic street art on Spring St. in Nolita in downtown New York City. At first glance, the woman in the image reminds us a little of Kate Moss. Her eyes are hidden by blocks of Japanese katakana script, which is intriging but makes us wonder if the writing it has any actual meaning for the artwork or is merely a decorative conceit.

Shots of black-and-white wheat-paste posters on Broome Street comprise a virtual and ephemeral portrait photography gallery of pop-culture figures. The likes of Debbie Harry of Blondie and Patti Smith are among the people pictured on a wall along the north side of Broome between the Bowery and Christie streets in downtown New York City.

More freshness from Primo on Broome Street. This life-size wheat-paste of a man with a dog’s head holding a pistol to his head continues a theme. Many of the artist’s images involve figures with guns and faces either grotesquely altered or wearing feral, quasi-psychotic facial expressions.

This piece was at a spot that has recently attracted a lot of street art, mostly wheat-pastes, by the likes of Shepard Fairey and Haculla, among others. Apparently this has started to attract the attention of the building’s owner. With his work of the past year or two, Primo has quickly become one of our group of favorite artists working the street-scape and gallery space.

Last week, the last time we walked by this building, all the artwork had been stripped off the wall and painted over in the generic beige color of the nondescript one-story structure at the corner of Broome and Bowery streets in the Lower East Side / SoHo / Nolita / Chinatown area (that overlapping, gray area where these neighborhoods merge like a a georaphica mashup, which we will start calling “LoSoNo Town.”).

Whimsical illustration wheat-paste street art in front of the Bess shop on Lafayette St. in SoHo, in downtown Manhattan, NYC.

Lovely.

We love this wheat-paste street-art poster on Broome St. in SoHo. There’s a retro-Communist aesthetic evoked from this image of a cute baby astronaut in A.S.V.P.-branded helmet.

Sweet little collection of concert and club-event posters in downtown Athens, Greece.

Life-size wheat-paste street-art poster of a crazed dude slinging two pistols on Allen Street in the Lower East Side, downtown New York City. Great stuff. Who is the artist, we wonder. We have been informed that the artist is Primo. Whoever he or she is, the same The creator is a behind a similar series of paste-ups that referenced the late Heath Ledger’s Joker from the recent Batman film.

El Coucho wheatpaste in SoHo. This street-art work reminds us of contemporary Mexican folk art.

New York City street art: “rbikamera” wheatpaste on Crosby Street, SoHo.


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New York City street art: Another section of Haculla wheatpaste in SoHo.


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New York City street art: Haculla strikes again with the freshness in SoHo.


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New York City street art: Artist ID detail from recent FKDL wheat-paste street art on Crosby Street, SoHo, Downtown Manhattan.


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New York City street art: Section of recent FKDL wheat-paste street art on Crosby Street, SoHo, Downtown Manhattan.


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New York City street art: Detail from wheat-paste art work by FKDL on Crosby Street, SoHo, Downtown.


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New York City street art: Fresh wheat-paste art work by FKDL on Crosby Street, SoHo, Downtown.


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