About 2Wild
The 2Wild collaboration was born when brother and sister duo, Barak and Miri Rozenvain, each a successful and popular artist on their own, decided to join forces on a collaboration that changed their lives forever.
Since childhood, Barak and Miri shared a studio and helped each other grow as artists. They traveled often as a family and were equally inspired by natural and cultural landscapes. Visiting art shows, galleries, and museums enriched their artistic development, while enjoying national parks, uncharted beaches, and encounters with wildlife inspired their minds, focus, and mission. This love and passion for nature and the outdoors became an integral part of the artists’ identities. Expressing their passion for the natural world through innovative and unique combinations of contemporary media quickly became the artists’ mission.
The artists are inspired by the impressive North American wilderness, often making its landscapes and wildlife the subject of their work. 2Wild approaches painting through a contemporary lens, capturing their impressions of the natural world from roaring waves to sublime mountainscapes. The viewers can picture themselves in these dreamlike moments of action and adventure, rendered through gestural contours, drips, and palette knife butterflies. The artwork speaks to nature’s adaptability and timelessness, and our innate connection to it. Each one of the 2Wild paintings is teeming with emotion, telling tales of wonder and excitement, with a mission to preserve nature’s legacy and elevate the outdoor experience.
Creating the 2Wild artwork is a fluid and always evolving process. Detailed brush and palette knife work is enriched with contemporary mediums such as shattered glass, resin, collage media, and plexiglass. The use of transparent plexiglass as a “canvas” in their fine art creations, quickly became one of 2Wild’s most iconic features. The transparent nature of the material allows the artists to paint on both sides of the glass achieving impeccable depth, and seamlessly merging the artwork with the interior in which it is displayed. Similar to the dialogue created between the space and the artwork, a captivating play between word and image is fostered using carefully curated collage media. This creates a form of storytelling, conveying the artists’ message, and cultivating a perfect setting for the subject matter.
2Wild blends traditional and contemporary art elements into a seamless reflection of joy and happiness. Using vibrant butterflies as a symbol of nature’s lightness, elegance, and resilience, the artists infuse their paintings with the values of freedom, joy, and timelessness. Whether it’s a kind bear waking up in spring amid fluttering colorful butterflies or a surfer propelled by a wave of butterflies, the message is loud and clear. Go out there and be wild!
Meet the Artists
Miri was born on June 27th, 1998. Her childhood was spent mesmerized watching her parents paint for hours on end. Through these early years in the family studio Miri developed a strong sense of observation and the technical skill needed to capture her subjects in detailed palette knife and brushwork.
In her teenage years, Miri became intensely aware of the vastness of the contemporary art world and its ability to create layers of meaning and weave together old and new narratives. The influences of Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, and Helen Frankenthaler became pivotal in her endless reinvention of timeless subject matter. She started experimenting with collage and stencil work, combining and recombining it with stain washes and mark making. At the age of 18, while her artwork was already displayed by major galleries across North America, Miri began her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art at York University and graduated in 2020. This exposure only furthered Miri’s appreciation and love for the timelessness of wildlife and the natural world. Armed with a new tool belt of techniques and mediums, Miri decided to join her brother in the creation of the 2Wild collaboration.
Miri developed her unique and distinctive style by combining a spontaneous and free application of paint, drips, smears, scrapes, and spills with a vibrant and rich palette. Her unparalleled ability to capture emotion and movement using texture and brushstrokes brings each of her creations to life, giving 2Wild its special and distinctive flair.
Miri
Barak was born on March 1st, 1991. Since childhood Barak has demonstrated a dual passion for art and business. While receiving his informal artistic training by observing his parents paint at their home studio, Barak pursued formal education by completing a Bachelor as well as Master’s degree in Business Administration. Barak’s dream became a reality when he moved to Whistler, BC and purchased the Plaza Art Gallery.
The beautiful, scenic mountainscapes of British Columbia quickly became Barak’s main source of inspiration. He dreamed of recreating the true textural feel of the mountains on canvas. He created a stone-like, textural technique by mixing sand, clay, and paint to form a new medium, which he then applies onto the canvas with a palette knife. Using this medium and technique he infuses each one of 2Wild’s paintings with a breathtaking textural and three-dimensional look.
In recent years, as the 2Wild sculptural collection evolved to include plexiglass, metal, and wood elements, Barak took on the role of the studio’s chief engineer and fabricator. The artists’ technique quickly grew to include industrial tools and processes such as laser-cutting, welding, acrylic-bending, mold-creating, and wood carving in addition to traditional paint brushes and palette-knives. Finding creative ways of integrating these processes with 2Wild’s vision is Barak’s passion.
Barak
