EXHIBITED:
Desire Obtain Cherish: #YourKiddingRight, Bluerider ART Gallery, Taipei, May 23 - July 1, 2017

Jonathan Paul graduated from Parsons School of Design in New York, he integrates the concepts of pop-art, street art and conceptual art and implemented appropriation technique to reach beyond limitations of medium. In 2000, he became an instant hit with his focused in street art, and was widely seen in major art fairs across America. In 2015, D.O.C.’s works were shown at the Centurion Palace during the Venice Biennale. Afterwards, he was invited by Saks Fifth Avenue in New York to exhibit his mostknown series: Meltdown in shapes of lollipops. With a sense of dark humor, the artist tries to discuss controversial issues like sex, medicine abuse, money and popularity to irony and to overturn audience’s value. The artist uses his works to critic the common culture, and also his anonym to reveal an endless circle of needs, in particular: Desire, Obtain and Cherish in our modern society.