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SF Art Galleries - Openings & Events Event source calendar Event Link: see venue calendar above ^^ MEAGAN BOYD PRESENTS TWO INTERCONNECTED EXHIBITIONS AT SWIM GALLERY IN SAN FRANCISCO: GARDEN IN THE SHAPE OF A GIRL AND MYTHS OF THE ANCIENT FUTURE Opening November 13, 2026, the artist and curator brings together a deeply personal solo exhibition and an expansive group exhibition exploring mythology, feminine consciousness, mysticism, and the enduring power of imagination. SAN FRANCISCO, CA — November 2026 — SWIM Gallery presents two concurrent exhibitions by Los Angeles–based artist Meagan Boyd: Garden in the Shape of a Girl, a solo presentation of Boyd’s visionary paintings, and Myths of the Ancient Future, a group exhibition curated by Boyd featuring an extraordinary constellation of contemporary artists whose practices explore mythology, spirituality, symbolism, and the unseen. Opening together on Friday, November 13, 2026, the exhibitions form a dialogue between the deeply personal and the collective, inviting viewers into worlds where ancient knowledge, contemporary experience, and imagined futures converge. 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 sanctuary: 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 mysteries 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 world we create to understand ourselves. MYTHS OF THE ANCIENT FUTURE 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 include: 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. TWO EXHIBITIONS, ONE EXPANSIVE VISION Though distinct in scope, the exhibitions share a philosophical foundation: the belief that art can m…