S C L O C C O

We are thrilled to announce a surprise addition to our @rubberneckers.film art space, the incredible @f.sclocco ! SCLOCCO is a self-taught figurative artist based in Toronto and trained architect working in the film industry. His work explores gender fluidity and social dynamics through figures that resist fixed identity. He is drawn to historical references not as nostalgia, but as living systems that continue to shape how we inhabit our bodies and relate to one another. He uses structure to inform how figures occupy space, while painting allows him to undo rigidity, introducing vulnerability, fluidity, and fracture. The body becomes a site where structure dissolves, reflecting the instability of power, intimacy, and self perception. Link in bio for tickets! 🎨

Sclocco (@f.sclocco ) invites us into his studio, where figurative painting delves into vulnerability, identity, and the fluid space in which men can comfortably inhabit and express their femininity. Meet Sclocco and buy his works at #ArtistProject 2026, March 26-29 at the Enercare Centre. Buy Tickets Now (link in bio @ArtistProjectTO )

Hi I’m Sclocco for those of you who are new here. I’m a trained architect and a self taught painter originally from Italy. My two favourite things are history and the beach and that relationship with place still shapes everything I make. My work is deeply informed by how cultures influence one another over time and how they overlap fracture and quietly transform. “The Garden After the Gate” This painting is about curiosity and permission. About crossing a threshold and allowing yourself to rest. It’s an escape but also a return. A time to recharge. A moment to sit and ponder to look at colour through a mirror or the surface of a pond where things soften distort and reveal themselves differently. It’s about trusting yourself again and letting no one stand in your way. About honouring the relationships you’ve built being fully present with them and allowing love to exist under the scorching sun without urgency or fear. Now feels like the time to go back to what I love most. The next slides are my inspiration. I’d especially love to hear from historians here. My work often speaks through memory identity and emotional architecture and I’m always curious how others read it. Oh to add!!! This painting will be shown at the @artistprojectto March 26-29. Get tickets! #art #artwork #artist #delphianopencall2026 @delphiangallery

Another 🔴 sold piece from the @artistprojectto . I kept thinking about the legend of the Minotaur. Not simply as a monster trapped in a labyrinth, but as a body carrying shame, exile, instinct, and desire all at once. A creature hidden away because it did not fit the structure built around it. The labyrinth becomes psychological. A space of repression, identity, and inherited fear. We enter it thinking we are searching for the beast, but often we are confronting the parts of ourselves we were taught to conceal. In my work, the Minotaur is not only violence or masculinity. It becomes tenderness distorted by isolation. A body too emotional, too instinctive, too excessive for the systems surrounding it. The figures embrace, collapse, merge into one another as if searching for a way out through intimacy rather than conquest. “Enter knowing what you carry” speaks to that moment before entering your own internal maze. The awareness that we do not walk in empty handed. We bring memory, shame, desire, softness, rage, history. The painting asks whether the thing waiting in the center is truly a monster, or simply a neglected part of ourselves waiting to be seen. @99.frames always pick the right frames. Love working with Lisa since day one. #art #canadianart #canadian #artist #figurative

Hello again and welcome to those just arriving. I’m Sclocco, a Toronto based figurative painter. I’m drawn to androgyny and to the ways we embrace the body, adorn it and express it, sensual, soft and powerful at once. I’m interested in the moment when chaos takes over and instinct rises to the surface. Embracing runs through my work, bodies converging, holding, dissolving into one another. I’m interested in transformation, in what happens when we allow space, when we allow growth. I bend iconography, history and architecture into something more fluid and felt. For this piece I wanted my outfit to echo the painting, same tones, same energy, almost like stepping inside the work itself. Pieces from @gentlemonster @weardorianwho @fengchenwang @adidasoriginals Glad you’re here. Stay a while. #figurativepainting #contemporaryart #torontoartist #androgyny #artcollector

@artistprojectto done! The past 5 months were intense! Prepping more than 60 work and exhibiting for four consecutive days. I met so many wonderful people and truly loved every minute, but what stayed the most wasn’t the compliments or sales… it was the real emotional connection I felt with certain individuals. I had the pleasure of being part of art walks by @kristoferhiroshi and @odessapaloma and I’m grateful for the depth of those conversations. Their groups really moved me. Their questions were honest, intuitive, and deeply human. They understood my references without needing words… it felt like they stepped into my world and chose to stay in it. I truly felt seen understood. A special thank you to my friend @by.veronicagi , whose pottery and ikebana compositions brought everything together. She chose flowers and colors in dialogue with my work and even with what I was wearing each day. It became one cohesive, living composition. Thank you for your sensitivity and talent. This felt like a true comeback. After two years of working quietly, I could feel something in me fully come alive again… and it was received. I allowed myself to play, to reconnect with my inner child, and that was the greatest gift. The part of me that once felt silenced was very, very happy during those four days. Thank you to everyone who came by, connected, and took a piece home with them. It truly meant everything. Thank you to my wonderful partner @sourqueenandonion You see me in moments where I’m not always easy, and instead of stepping back, you stay, you support me, and you believe in me. That kind of love is rare. And I feel it. Thank you for your patience, your strength, and for always reminding me who I am, even when I lose sight of it for a moment. I’m really grateful to have you by my side. Thank you to my boss @dparkwiseman Your guidance, honesty, and support have really stayed with me, and I can feel the impact it’s had on both my work and how I move through this world. Most important, thank you for @franklin_unleashed for choosing the front pic with me.

These are my original oil stick sketches. They live in between… not the beginning, not the end, but the turning point. I start from a real-life image and translate it into studies (the one hang above) Then comes this phase… where I deconstruct those studies into linework. I strip them down to understand what I’m truly seeing. It’s where I take control of negative space and begin to reinterpret the image through my own eyes. Then, from that linework, I jump into the larger paintings. These sketches are the bridge. They allow me to step away from pure representation and move toward something more distorted, more emotional. By the time I move into the bigger works, reality is already bending. I’m no longer trying to render perfectly… I’m trying to feel more. I’ve been so happy seeing both my collectors and new clients connect with these pieces… and even with the way I chose to display them. I designed everything from scratch from @sketchup_official to @adobe @_adobeillustrator_ to see how the rack would look and then I used a @cricut_ca machine to cut each piece. On the back, I wrote a small personal story… something I’ve never shared in interviews before. Sharing that felt intimate. It made me feel closer to you. I’m honestly so happy with how they turned out. I loved seeing people walking around @artistprojectto fair with my packaging! Thank you @artistprojectto team, for catching that! I love them and I love each of you that has a piece of me in your life. Also, thank you to my best buddy @davidakiogrant that helped me setting up the booth! #artist #artistproject #linework #sketches

It’s Sunday, daddy will take you to church. Pin by @marjan.hassaneini 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 @giorgioarmani @vitaly @artistprojectto

“Get a Sofa, I am coming over”, There’s a moment… quiet but decisive when you realize your life is about to make space for someone else. Not just emotionally, but physically. You look around and think… I need a sofa. A place to sit together. To stay. To exist side by side. This painting lives in that threshold between solitude and arrival between who you were and who you’re about to become with someone else in the room. Thank you @kristoferhiroshi for including me in the art walk @artistprojectto . I was so amazed by the depth and generosity of the questions and it meant a lot to share that space with all of you.

“Tumbling Together” at @artistprojectto Booth 642 #art #toronto #painting #interiors

Third day @artistprojectto Third outfit. And today… I’m wearing a piece of history. This is a haori, a traditional Japanese jacket worn over a kimono, rooted in the Edo period. It began as a men’s garment, often modest on the outside but richly decorated on the inside… because men weren’t encouraged to openly embellish themselves. So expression became something intimate, hidden, almost secret. Later, when women adopted the haori, that language shifted. The beauty moved outward. Patterns, paintings, textures… visible, unapologetic. The one I’m wearing today carries that energy. The story is on the surface. I found it at a vintage stand at the St. Lawrence Market… one of those moments where something finds you before you even understand why. PS: Glasses are @gentlemonster And car necklaces was from @bazaar.toronto

Thanks to @thetehrantimes for the shout out. @artistprojectto #artist #artwork #arttoronto #italianartist