Surfing Godfather's Journals On Display At Outeast Gallery

Tony Caramanico has been surfing in Montauk since 1971, and all the while he has been keeping his surfing journals. While he can still be found at Ditch Plains on most days, 23 years’ worth of the surfer’s clippings are the centerpiece of a new exhibit on display at Outeast gallery.

According to gallery assistant Darlene Dubray, "The show conveys both a personal and a world history as it comes back to the beach."

Journal pages, which consist of collages made up of newspaper clippings, photographs and drawings, cover everything from how the surf is breaking to the breaking news of the day including memorable events such as the Iranian Hostage Crisis and the Challenger explosion.  

Dubray said Caraminco is, "very good to surf with," and, "his work captures the history of surfing, where it comes from his own vision and experience of it. If you are a real surfer you have to give homage to people with more knowledge and ability than you."

Outeast Gallery – located at 65 Tuthill Rd. – has been open since 2010 and is run by owner Scott Pitches. Pitches, a surfer himself, likes to think that the gallery’s shows are not just surfing stuff, as of the gallery's present season has featured artists from New York City, Key West and California in all mediums.

The Caramanico show, which opened on Saturday and displays blown up matte and giclee prints of 32 of Caramanico's pages starting in 1980 and ending in 2003, will run the accustomed length of all Outeast shows, 3 to 4 weeks.