Lloyd Toone
Function at the Junction by Lloyd Toone, 2024

Function at the Junction, 2024

Born 1940, Chase City, Virginia

Lloyd Toone

Six decades of mixed-media sculpture, painting, collage and works on paper.

Artist statement

Lloyd Toone breathes life into contemporary and figurative forms, transforming ordinary objects into extraordinary treasures. Leather shoe soles, electrical cable and fabric are built up over wooden armatures until the surface itself carries the figure.

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Film

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Collections and exhibitions

  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston — Afro-American Artists, 1969 and 1970
  • Acts of Art Gallery, New York — Rebuttal to the Whitney Museum Exhibition, 1971
  • Hunter College Art Galleries, New York — Acts of Art in Greenwich Village, 2024–2025
  • Permanent collections include Hampton University Museum and Reynolda House Museum of American Art

Series

Featured series

Yardbird Series

Yardbird Series sculpture by Lloyd Toone, 2006 — upright rooster with overlapping orange and brown soles on a tiered dark base.

2006

47 H × 11.5 W × 37 L in.

All-black rooster sculpture by Lloyd Toone with shingled leather feathers, long sweeping tail and textured black base, signed and dated 2006

2006

Yardbird Series sculpture by Lloyd Toone, 2005 — orange hen with long cascading leather-strip tail and crossed dark legs.

2005

24 H × 23 L in.; Base 7 W × 23 L in.

Yardbird Series sculpture by Lloyd Toone, 2006 — rust-colored rooster with an arcing dark strap tail on a corrugated base.

2006

22 H × 7.5 W × 20 L in.

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From the studio

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  • Title wall of the exhibition Acts of Art in Greenwich Village, November 7, 2024 to March 22, 2025, listing Lloyd Toone among the exhibiting artists
    Acts of Art in Greenwich Village, Hunter College Art Galleries, November 7, 2024 – March 22, 2025.
  • A dark textured square wall work beside a metal bust with long black hair, on a white plinth
    Installation view

Currently on view

Lloyd Toone and Peggy Dillard Toone: Joint Retrospective

Spartanburg Art Museum (SAM) · Spartanburg, SC · 2026–2027

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