Sclocco: The Tender Wilderness at Artist Project 2026, Toronto
Sclocco, Can’t Wait To Hug Everyone, 2026, Oil and mixed media on canvas, 36″ x 48″
New Figurative Paintings by Sclocco
Artist Project, Booth 642
March 26 – 29, 2026
Opening Night Party: March 26, 2026, 6 – 10pm
Enercare Centre, Exhibition Place, Toronto
theartistproject.com
For Artist Project 2026, Sclocco presents a new body of figurative paintings that explore the body as an emotional landscape. Figures appear suspended between tenderness and instinct, inhabiting spaces where vulnerability, memory, and transformation intersect. Within these works, masculinity is not fixed but fluid, shifting between strength and softness, restraint and release.
Working between fine art and film set design, the artist constructs compositions where architectural structure meets the fluidity of the human figure. Columns, thresholds, and spatial frameworks suggest order and stability, while the painted body resists containment. Limbs fragment, surfaces dissolve, and figures drift between intimacy and distance.
Sclocco, The Garden After The Gate, 2026, Oil and mixed media on canvas, 48″ x 36″
This recent series moves further into abstraction while remaining anchored in the figure. The paintings explore the unstable terrain where masculinity can expand beyond rigid expectations. Clawed hands, shifting limbs, and unsettled ground suggest moments of psychological transformation rather than fixed identity.
Executed in layered media including oil, charcoal, and raw canvas, the paintings embrace process and material presence. Bodies emerge and dissolve within the surface, creating spaces that feel both physical and emotional.
See Sclocco’s work at Booth 642.
Sclocco, Hold My Cornucopia, 2026, Oil on canvas, 24″ x 20″
About the Artist
Sclocco is a Toronto-based figurative painter whose work explores vulnerability, identity, and the fluid space in which the body negotiates power, intimacy, and transformation. Working between fine art and film set design, his practice combines architectural structure with expressive figuration to create psychological landscapes where the body becomes a site of emotional tension and possibility.
His work has been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions in Toronto and internationally, and he was recently an artist in residence at Château de Cerisay in France and at the Vermont Studio Center.
Website: www.fabriziosclocco.com/paintings
Artist Project
Enercare Centre, Exhibition Place
100 Princes’ Blvd
Toronto, ON M6K 3C3
theartistproject.com
Hours:
Friday, March 27, 12 – 8pm
Saturday, March 28, 12 – 8pm
Sunday, March 29, 12 – 6pm
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