page_title: Ithaka Darin Pappas
section_title: The Reincarnation Of A Surfboard
hierarchical_section_title: Ithaka Darin Pappas / The Reincarnation Of A Surfboard
caption_attribution_description: English: Detail of "Amanari", from the series entitled Jurema, a recycled-surfboard sculpture created by Californian artist Ithaka Darin Pappas in AkahtiLândia, Brazil- 2009.
context_page_description: Ithaka Darin Pappas, often known simply as Ithaka, is an American sculptor, painter, photographer, songwriter, vocalist, hip hop artist, writer, poet, record producer and surfer of partial Greek descent. His visual work has appeared in exhibitions at the International Center of Photography in New York, The Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles, Musée d'Art Contemporain in Marseille and São Paulo Museum of Image and Sound.
  Pappas was born and raised in Southern California, but later established himself in Japan, Greece, Portugal, Brazil and Mexico. The artist currently resides in California.
context_section_description: In 1989, while living in the Miracle Mile district of Los Angeles, Pappas began one of his major art projects, The Reincarnation Of A Surfboard, a large body of contemporary sculpture work created using recycled surfboards as raw building material and repurposing them into contemporary wall-mounted art pieces. The series to date, which is said to contain an estimated three hundred full-sized sculptures, has been exhibited on four continents and featured in hundreds of magazines and on many TV features. The most recent solo exhibitions of these works were hosted by Hurley Clothing in Costa Mesa, California in October 2013 and WOA: Way Of Arts in Cascais, Portugal in December 2012. He has been active with this medium since its inception; with additional individual pieces made in Mexico. In December 2012, during an interview piece regarding his solo showing of surfboard sculptures at Gallery WOA in Lisbon, Fuel TV Europe declared that Pappas was "The Godfather of Contemporary Surf Art". Works from this project appear in the private collections of international surfing celebrities and Hollywood production companies. In Oscar-winning actress Marlee Matlin's non-fictional book entitled, I'll Scream Later, she says of Ithaka's work with The Reincarnation Of A Surfboard project, "He turns surfboards into art, seriously".
caption: Amanari a reincarnated surfboard sculpture by artist Ithaka Darin Pappas from the series Jurema 2009
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