Myths of the Ancient Future + Garden in the Shape of a Girl @ SWIM Gallery
Garden in the Shape of a Girl
Group Exhibition Curated by Meagan Boyd
Extending the themes of Boyd's solo exhibition into a broader artistic conversation, Myths of the Ancient Future brings together artists whose practices inhabit the fertile space between the ancestral and the speculative, the sacred and the surreal.
The exhibition considers mythology not as something confined to the distant past, but as a living language through which we continually reinvent our understanding of existence.
Across painting, sculpture, and other artistic practices, the participating artists construct personal cosmologies, alternative histories, and symbolic worlds that transcend linear time.
In an era increasingly shaped by technology and uncertainty, Myths of the Ancient Future proposes imagination as an essential means of reconnecting with the mysterious, the ecological, and the spiritual. Ancient symbols become vessels for contemporary questions, while visions of the future are informed by the wisdom, rituals, and stories of the past.
Participating Artists:
Alphachanneling • Michael McGarth • Maggie Lochtenberg • Tae Lee • Monica Canilao • Jasmin Cañas • Peter Makela • Arrington de Dionyso • Lise Silva • Caro Arévalo • Virgo Paraíso • Tino Rodriguez • Lisa Ostapinski
Together, these artists create a multifaceted exploration of mythmaking as a profoundly human act, one that allows us to imagine new possibilities for being in the world.
Garden in the Shape of a Girl
Solo Exhibition by Meagan Boyd
In Garden in the Shape of a Girl, Boyd explores the body as a living landscape, a place of wild growth, memory, longing, transformation, and renewal. Through her intricate visual language of botanical forms, mythological figures, and dreamlike symbolism, the artist creates a world in which the boundaries between the human body, the natural world, and the spiritual realm become fluid.
Boyd's work draws upon folklore, archetypal imagery, esoteric traditions, and her intuitive relationship with the natural world. Her paintings often emerge through a ritualistic process incorporating botanical pigments and materials, allowing the act of creation itself to become an extension of the ideas embodied in the work.
The garden becomes both metaphor and sanctuarv: a site of cultivation and wildness. beauty and decay, innocence and experience. Within this imagined terrain, femininity is not a fixed identity but an ever-evolving ecosystem, shaped by the cycles of nature and the mvsteries of inner life.
At once intimate and otherworldly, Garden in the Shape of a Girl offers a meditation on becoming, on the stories we inherit, the identities we cultivate, and the imaginative worlds we create to understand ourselves.