“The Fletcher Family: A Lifetime in Surf”

This encomium to the Fletchers, the first family of surfing and skateboarding, fairly screams kowabunga! Though the clan stretches back five generations to the Hawaiian surf scene of the 1950s, the show concentrates on Herbie Fletcher, a septuagenarian artist and surfing legend whose contributions include wall-mounted jumbles of broken surfboards called “Wrecktangles,” and stretched-burlap canvases painted with volcanic mud from Hawaii. Also on view are Herbie’s custom surfboards, created with a glossy perfectionism that rivals anything made by the California Finish/Fetish School. The show offers a cooling breeze of endless summer amidst the sweltering concrete jungle of NYC in August.