“As an artist, I would have my work take you on a journey. My work should help you document everyday living experiences from work to play, from life to death, and from sadness to happiness. Come and journey with me for Life is an ever evolving experience, full of new insights from day to day.

I am concerned with the art of exploring and creating art that speaks to me and others. My art productions are about our environment, life experiences, and our spiritual being. My response to the world exemplifies the educational and functional response to the world around me.

I use vibrant colors, forms, shapes, and textures. Serigraphs, monotypes, lithographs, acrylics, watercolors, and mixed-media collages, dynamically shape my repertoire. Also, I use art techniques like dry brush techniques, wet on wet, slashing and many other media techniques to express the relationship between a concept and a visual reference.”
— Lionel Lofton
 
 

Contemporary artist Lionel Lofton was born and raised in Houston, TX, and studied with John Biggers at Texas Southern University (Houston) and Clarence Talley at A&M University (Prairie View). 

He has exhibited extensively from the 1980s to present, including at the 1993 Black Creativity Art Exhibition, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL; The Harmon & Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art: Works on Paper, Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX, 2009; In the Hands of African American Collectors: The Personal Treasures of Bernard and Shirley Kinsey, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 2007; A Century of African American Art: The Paul R. Jones Collection, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 2004.  

Orange Butterfly Series

2020; mixed media assemblage, 17 x 27 inches (overall), 10 x 22 inches (image), signed

Selected Public and Private Collections

  • The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection

  • The Paul R. Jones Collection

  • Leo King Edwards Jr., MD, San Antonio, Texas

  • J.E. and Aubrey B. Welcome, Willingboro, NJ

  • Kerry and C. Betty Davis Collection

  • The Black Academy of Arts and Letters, TX

  • The African American of Dallas, TX

  • University of Arkansas, Art Dept., Pine Bluff, Ark

  • The Larry and Brenda Thompson Collection, Atlanta, GA

  • Kevin and Karen Cole, Artist/Educator, Fairburn, GA

Sorenson Dr

2020s

acrylic on canvas

30 x 40 inches

signed and titled

Utopia Study Series A

2020

acrylic on heavy paper

30 x 22 inches

signed and dated