Married to Success by Desire Obtain Cherish
Married to Success by Desire Obtain Cherish
Since his emergence as street artist in the early 2000s, Desire Obtain Cherish (DOC) has become known as pop sculptor working across a wide variety of different media and a combination of styles including street, pop, conceptual and appropriation art. His controversial art work explores contemporary desires and obsessions with sex, gender, drugs, commerce, media and fame. Transporting controversial, satirical messages, Desire’s vibrantly colorful, entertaining and impeccably produced art exposes society’s inability to control itself and examines the commercial promise of fulfillment and happiness that ends in dependency. Meant to have an impact on its audience, DOC employs sarcasm to tackle and provoke society’s value system. Aiming to avoid the conventional, stereotypical standards of “good taste” in art, his ideas are more in line with contemporary commerce and marketing methods than traditional artisan methods.
The esteemed New Yorker art critic Benjamin Genocchio characterized DOC’s work as “not malicious, even if his works cut to the bone. He is more like our social conscience, delivering up uncomfortable and unpleasant truths wrapped in the most beautiful and seductive of packages.” Born in 1975 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 at Lab Art street gallery 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.
Working under the alias Desire Obtain Cherish (D.O.C.), Jonathan Paul emerged as a street artist in the early 2000s. 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 “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.
Artwork

Married to Success Orange Blue Swirl by DOC
Married to Success Orange Blue Swirl by DOC

Married to Success Green by DOC
Married to Success Green by DOC
Related News
-
A Conversation with Tania Marmolejo
-
Philippe Shangti: Staged Glamour
-
Roy Lichtenstein: Early Career Works
-
A Brief History of Fashion Photography
-
Banksy: The Di-faced Tenner
-
Andy Warhol: Electric Chair Portfolio
-
The Yosemite Suite by David Hockney
-
Banksy: Early Prints
-
Introducing Thomas Agrinier
-
Blek Le Rat: The Artist is Present
-
Introducing Julian Opie
-
A Conversation with Vincent Chung
-
Robert Mapplethorpe: Light and Dark
-
Jonas Wood: Multiples of Three
-
An Interview with James Joyce
-
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity
-
The Tax Collection: 2018 Curatorial Residency
-
Andy Warhol’s Campbell Soup Cans
-
Damien Hirst Does Mickey Mouse
-
Tim Bessell x Andy Warhol Surfboards
-
Clairvoyance Exhibition
-
Bruce Makowsky and the Art of Luxury
-
Legendary Andy Warhol at Guy Hepner
-
Roy Lichtenstein at Guy Hepner