Jonathan Paul, better known as Desire Obtain Cherish or DOC, is an American artist who explores contemporary obsessions with sex, desire, drugs, gender, luxury, media, commerce and fame. Born in 1975 in California, Paul first made a name for himself in Los Angeles as a street artist in the early 2000s. He earned his BA in Fine Arts from Parson’s School of Design. With a background in fashion advertising and art theory, Desire Obtain Cherish has become known as a pop sculptor who fuses street, pop, conceptual, and appropriation art with popular culture to make his own unique satirical message. In his latest body of work that will be exhibited at UNIX Gallery, Desire Obtain Cherish has focused on the notion of happiness, by creating (among other things) still life paintings. Studying inanimate objects like flowers, food, and assorted treasures has rich implications. Desire Obtain Cherish references this tradition with his new body of work with flowers, a staple in still life paintings, then inserts pills, the contours of archetypical anime figures, and globs of paint that dwarf the proportions of the objects they obscure.