Marcia Bianchi & Sclocco: Without Instructions

Pop-Up Art Exhibition Hosted by Miller Tavern

Images (left to right): Marcia Bianchi, une classique IV, 2025, oil on linen, 11″ x 14″. Sclocco, Inter Nos, oil on linen, 2026, 48″ x 36″.

Marcia Bianchi & Sclocco: Without Instructions

February 5, 2026, 6 – 9pm
Miller Tavern (Uptown), North York

Without Instructions presents the work of two artists, Sclocco and Marcia Bianchi, who, over recent months, have made a deliberate turn away from perfection and control. Emerging from separate residencies in France during 2025, both practices have been similarly shaped by an immersion in textiles, colour, and architectural rhythms—experiences that engaged with existing systems, structures, and spatial order, while simultaneously inviting disruption. Rather than placing focus and attention on refining, both artists have allowed uncertainty, process, and material to guide the work.

Throughout the exhibition, there is a shared commitment to experimentation and play. Raw linen, oil stick, charcoal, clay, and other tactile materials are embraced for their sense of possibility. Marks remain visible, surfaces stay open, and outcomes are embraced rather than predetermined. In letting the work become what it wants to be, the artists create space for chance, gesture, and discovery—revealing practices that are less about mastery and more about listening, risk, and becoming.

Marcia Bianchi, Tough Love, 2025, 36″ x 48″

About the Artists:

Marcia Bianchi (b. 1992) is a Canadian artist, exploring the intricacies of growth and decay. Bianchi’s work has been published in Forbes, The Globe and Mail, and Artist Talk Magazine. She has exhibited internationally; on a digital billboard in Times Square (NYC), The Superfair (Brooklyn, NY), in the London Underground (London, UK), at Workflow with The Drake Hotel (Toronto), and at The Annex Hotel (Toronto) where her work was commissioned as part of their permanent collection. Bianchi has attended many prestigious residencies, including a year long term at MOCA Toronto (2022), and a month-long term at Berlin Art Institute in Germany (2024). She recently attended another residency with R.A.R.O. in Barcelona (2025), creating work she later exhibited at Yellow Cube Gallery in Paris (2025). Her work is sold online with Tacit Collective, Peggy, and in the gift shop at the AGO. She also sat on the Board of Directors at Gallery 1313 throughout 2023. Her work continues to evolve as she explores mediums and muses.

Instagram @marciabianchi.studio

Sclocco, Chateau de Cerisay No.3, 2025, 16″ x 20″

Sclocco (b. 1989, Pescara, Italy) is a Toronto-based figurative painter whose work explores how the body carries psychological tension shaped by personal and cultural history. After completing fine art and architectural studies in Pescara, he permanently moved to Canada in 2012, developing a practice that combines painting with film set design. Sclocco’s paintings depict figures that resist conventional categorization, occupying spaces between vulnerability and strength. These forms exist in states of transformation, challenging traditional binaries and embracing emotional ambiguity. His architectural background informs his compositional precision while bringing nuanced sensitivity to material and form. Informed by his Italian heritage and immigrant experience, Sclocco explores the intersection of personal and collective narratives. Through themes of transformation and authenticity, his work questions entrenched notions of identity, inviting reconsideration of belonging and self-perception within contemporary urban life. His work was recently featured in a project with the Art Gallery of Ontario and exhibited at the Four Seasons Hotel in Mexico City. Sclocco’s paintings reflect a shift toward quieter forms and fewer subjects, focusing attention on the emotional charge within the figure itself. He continues to live and work in Toronto.

Instagram @f.sclocco

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