Working under the alias Desire Obtain Cherish (D.O.C.), Jonathan Paul (1975) emerged as a street artist in the early 2000s.
Born in Salinas, California, DOC graduated from the nationally acclaimed Parson’s School of Design with a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts. Since his first solo show in Los Angeles (2011), he has been featured in numerous shows and art fairs as well as galleries worldwide, and his work has propelled with unusual fervor amid collectors and the public respectively.
Merging street, pop, conceptual, and appropriation art, D.O.C.’s cast resin sculptures are marked by a subversive edge, satirizing status symbols and revealing a commerce-driven social conscience. A stint at an advertising agency helped D.O.C. understand the psychology of communication and contributed to his marketing-driven ideas and artistic style, which boasts a glossy, modern finish and unexpected juxtapositions.
His controversial art work explores contemporary desires and obsessions with sex, gender, drugs, commerce, media and fame. His “Designer Drugs” (2013) series, for example, addresses the concept of a “shopper’s high” by featuring luxury brand logos on pill packets. “Heresy’s Cross” (2013) consists of crucifixes made of melting Hershey’s chocolate bars; the series calls attention to contemporary objects of worship.
DOC lives and works in Los Angeles.
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| Who Needs a Gallery |
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| What me behave, seriously? |
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| Type 2 |
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| The game is completed |
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| Target market |
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| Servant to Infinite Distraction |
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| Sacred Heights |
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| Pink Poodle |
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| One's pacifier is another's Panacea |
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Nuero Girl
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| Mini Meltdowns |
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| Married To Success |
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| It's been swell but the swelling's |
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| Intensive care unit, 5 packs |
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| Hersheys Mint |
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| Harold's afrodite |
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| Good business |
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| Good business |
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| Flora & Fauna |
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| Feast Of 1,000 Likes |
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| Designer drug single serving |
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| Designer drug LV |
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| Delicious mess |
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| Cognitive congestion |
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| Candy colored choker |
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| Bubble talk |
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| Blowpops |
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| Blood sugar high |
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| Bleeding Mondrian |
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| Best Performance by A Country |
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| Addicted at birth |
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