Singer, musician, DJ and photographer Moby showed his private collection of art on Friday, January 31, at a private viewing party—held in conjunction with the Art Los Angeles Contemporary art fair—in his Los Angeles home. Guests at the event caught a glimpse inside Moby’s renovated Beachwood Canyon estate, also known as the Wolf’s Lair, and at the innovative musician’s extensive collection of drawings, paintings, sketches, photographs, and more. Moby’s collection on view included artworks by pop-surrealist artist Mark Ryden and Stanley Donwood (the alias of English artist Dan Rickwood known for his work with Radiohead), and a photograph of the Sex Pistols shot by Dennis Morris. Guests got a look at images snapped by Moby and photographs that will be included in his upcoming show at Project Gallery, Innocents, New Photographs of the Apocalypse, along with his snapshots of fans taken from his vantage point on stage during his live performances.

Moby also visited the art fair itself, which took place from January 31 to February 2 at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica and included works from veteran photographer Ryan McGinley and Santiago Sierra along with pieces from rising talents Alex Da Corte and Aaron Garber-Maikovska. The event drew a crowd of over 10,000 guests, 23 local galleries including the David Kordansky Gallery and Thomas Solomon Gallery, 17 New York art houses alongside stables from Berlin, London, Paris, Dubai, Seoul and Mexico City. Artists also launched new work throughout the weekend. Nathaniel Mellors introduced photograms and sculpture from his new film The Sophisticated Neanderthal Interview, L.A.-based artist Mark Hagen debuted his space frame sculpture Ramada Santa Monica, and Ned Vena of Société in Berlin released a new epic-scale painting. Justine Bateman, Orlando Bloom, Jason Biggs, George Lucas, David Alan Grier, Lily Tomlin, Tara Summers, Jerry Bruckheimer, and Jane Fonda also visited the fair, as did art curators including Irving Blum and Amanda Hunt along with art collectors including David Goldberg, Rosette Delug, Mark Fluent, and Sam and Shanit Schwartz.  For the second time, the fair partnered with the Rema Hort Mann Foundation to award local artists with a $10,000 grant, and this year’s grantees included Nick Aguayo, Heather Cassils, Danielle Dean, Christina Forrer, Alison O’Daniel, Mark So, John Wiese, and Lisa Williamson. Moby and his fellow L.A. artists await a look at the new work this group will create for future fairs.

By Megan Meyer

 

Pictured: Moby at the Art Los Angeles Contemporary art fair held in Santa Monica. 
Photo by Stefanie Keenan for Getty Images

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