Cannon Dill (AR8)

Cannon Dill's 'Special Delivery'

Cannon Dill's album cover for The Cavities

     Cannon Dill is an illustrator and muralist living and creating artwork in Oakland. His subjects are mostly of animals, typically wolves and foxes; birds seem to have recently made their way into his creativity as of his recent solo show "Heavy Water" at LeQuiVive Gallery. The old and vacant buildings surrounding his home provide him with an industrial canvas, his murals blanket the walls of deserted architecture with radiantly variegated canines. The creatures embody human emotion and physical forms, denoted by the detailed contour lines that shape their mischievous or somber expressions, and elongated human-like limbs.

David Hale's 'Silence'

     Both artists, Cannon Dill and David Hale are similar in that much of their subjects are animals created through dark contour lines. Their illustrations have a very cartoonish look to them, with the exception that Hale's animals stay true to their anatomy. Although Hale's animals are physically realistic, the animals themselves are formed through human designs, tribal mandalas form into a head or body. Dill's animals exhibit many human physical and emotional qualities, as well as the incorporation of subtle tribal-like designs. The beauty of Dill's artwork is his humanoid canines and birds that make us ask, "What is running through their minds?"

Piece from Dill's solo show 'Heavy Water'

Cannon Dill's 'Beyond Lost'

Images of Artworks Provided by:

www.hifructose.com

www.cannondill.com

www.davidhale.org