Mayfield

As a grand finale to my research studio at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago I have invited Jo Cunningham and her Freak Family to park their trailer show outside of the SAIC 280 building. This will happen on Friday 5/15 from 11am -3pm in the street parking directly in front of 280 S Columbus Dr, Chicago, IL 60603. It’s free and open to the public although Jo is taking donations in order to continue her cross country tour Jo Cunningham is a self-taught sculptor and creator of  The Freak Family Roadshow, a traveling sculptural installation partly inspired by underground comics written by her father in the 1980s. The Freak Family features a gorilla mother, an alien father, and their strange love child, all trapped in an eternal time loop inside a canned-ham-style 1950s trailer.  Thank you @compoundyellow for the introduction to @the_freakfamily

Dinner Party 🍽️ Thank you to everyone who gathered, shared food, shared space, and made this work possible. To all of the performers — thank you for your trust, endurance, generosity, and willingness to move through discomfort together. The stained shirts feel like evidence of care, labor, intimacy, and excess all at once. And thank you @chrisgeal_ for photographing this preformance And thank you to Mayfield for holding the space for this work to unfold. Dinner Party explored consumption, etiquette, control, care, and the strange choreography of eating together. What happens when personal offerings become communal? When serving shifts into surrender? When bodies negotiate closeness around a table?

The preformance is tomorrow! • Time: 4–7 PM (performances start at 5:30) • Location: Mayfield (505 Marengo Ave, Forest Park)

🍽️ A video of progress 🍽️ 📍 Mayfield 505 Marengo Ave, Forest Park, IL 🗓 May 9 ⏰ 4:00–7:00 PM (performances begin at 5:30) You’re invited to bring a dish inspired by the person(s) who raised you. Your dish becomes part of the table. You will be fed, then disrupted. Come and go as you wish. #TableRemains #PerformanceArt #ChicagoArt #LivePerformance #CommunityArt

🍽️Gather. Remember. Share. 🍽️ Table Remains, a performance by Hazel Vernon. It is not only a meal but a space for memory, joy, and interruption. Bring a dish inspired by the person or people who raised you, and take a seat at a table where stories are held. Saturday, May 9 | 4–7 PM Performances begin at 5:30 📍 Mayfield, Forest Park, IL 505 Marengo Ave, Forest Park,IL, 60130

Plaster process videoooo 🍽️I’m so excited to finally see this project start to come to life. I cast my entire body in plaster and began transforming it into something completely new—a giant plate. This piece is part of a larger idea I’ve been building toward, and it’s slowly turning into a performance I’ll be sharing soon. Documenting every step because the process feels just as important as the final piece.

ECHOES of FORM Featuring works by Winnie Weiyun Szu and Matthew Herriot Curated by Héloïse Paillard In ‘Echoes of Form’, Szu and Herriot exemplify a reluctance to see painting as inherently referential, instead giving their works freedom to refer to nothing but themselves. In doing so, they shift perceptual focus from image recognition to an insistence that paintings can only be fully known through close visual attention, one small observation at a time. January 31 - April 6 2026 Opening reception: Sat, Jan 31, 2026 2:00 - 6:00 pm MAYFIELD (In the gym space) 505 Marengo Ave Forest Park, IL 60130 Contact: [email protected] [email protected] Open hours: By appointment only. “Wind Guide” is also on view through April 6 Image caption: Left Winnie Weiyun Szu, Yellow (detail), 2024, Egg oil tempera on panel, 9”x12” Right Matthew Herriot, Untitled (detail) , 2025, Acrylic on anodized aluminum 22” x 36” @winnie.szu @mattherriot @helopaillard

Last week to see Many Full Circles an exhibition organized by Megann Lawlor and Isabella Aguilar. Come receive a free catalog by @__bench_press with an essay by Isabella Aguilar and a take home test that will generate a personalized polkadot pattern. Also on view Wind Guide which includes wind chimes and wind related works by 25 artists. Work shown here in order of appearance by: Douglas Malone @d0uglassssss Edra Soto @edrasoto Ruby Que @rubyq.ue sierra zucker @longtimenosierra Send. message to make an appointment to receive a tour of mayfield. Groups are welcome. Photos by @merbu_photography

In conjunction with Wind Guide and sharing an opening reception, Mayfield is proud to present Many Full Circles a project by Megann Lawlor and Isabella Aguilar taking place in the 2nd floor gym. Many Full Circles October 5-November 10,2025 Opening Reception Sunday, October 5, 2025 Many Full Circles explores today’s polka dot craze in the context of late-stage capitalism, where economic instability and absurdity feel ever-present. The exhibition considers the polka dot as both a symbol of comfort and nostalgia, and the circle as a tool for data, organization, and representation. Drawing from Circulism, the belief that everything returns to cycles and circular forms show reflects on how we make sense of chaos through repetition, pattern, and shape. Mayfield 505 Marengo Ave. Forest Park, IL 60130

Wind Guide October 5–April 6, 2025 Opening Reception: Sunday, Oct 5 2–6pm We met the wind before. It took on human form, walking the streets of Chicago in plain clothes and humble appearance. They were a bit elusive but had a great sense of clarity and direction. They were kind and gracious, asking for nothing in return. We have decided to let the wind guide our next exhibition. Using elements of chance and coincidence as curation methods we have invited a group of 25 artists to create a series of wind chimes that will be installed on Mayfield’s perimeter. Through this ges-ture, we will amplify the wind’s voice in order to see what it has to say. - V Slovick Andi Crist Edra Soto Ruby Que John Preus bex ya yolk Nick Chiado Ieva Tersigni Sierra Zucker Mikey Mosher Sam Fresquez Pedro Albertini David Sprecher Kazuki Guzmán Jefferson Pinder Douglas Malone Meesh Kislyakov Mauricio López F. Madeleine Aguilar Christian Gutierrez Maria Burundarena Juan Angel Chavez Juan Eduardo Flores Sofía Fernández Díaz Merryn Omotayo Alaka open hours: by appointment only 505 Marengo Ave, Forest Park, IL, 60130 card design: @__bench_press @bx_yayolk @longtimenosierra @juanedflores @theandicrist @n.chiado_

As sun sets it illuminates the hot tub where you’ll find an installation by Erin Washington as part of Night Sweat/ Day Glow, the current exhibition at Mayfield. This celestial occurrence evolves overtime as the sun shifts. The show is on view by appointment through August so send a message to receive a personal tour night sweat ————— day glow April 26-August 31, 2025 What is left behind? The sweat on our bed sheets are an imprint of the distress, anguish and affliction caused by a harsh winter. As the seasons change the land begins to show signs of new life. Can we possibly reflect those signs back? V Aguirre Kyle Schlie Clara Schile Gabriel Villa Noelle Africh Ray Madrigal Ayanah Moor Ceninye Harris Kamille Kirshing Erin Washington Mauricio López F. Alexis de Chaunac Saoirse Ahumada Furin Caption: Erin Washington, a further message to the fish fresh out of water, 2020-present space blankets, plaster bandages, porcelain, wood; wire, formular, cardboard, fiber, ink, acrylic, non-photo blue lead, ink, graphite, vinyl, found objects. Inventory: laptop facsimile, tea kettle facsimiles, vessels, subway tile, golden disc, celery, two cigarettes, George Washington cologne, sponge sander, pen, nitrile gloves, witch hand & finger, graphite on the ground, geodesic dome, Poor Farm extraction, coffee pun, baby blanket, inaccurate measuring tool, bolt cutter, painting chops (jaw), prisms, faux book, time keeper, 1’ x 1’ to measurement of artist’s height with artists’ shoe.

At 9:48 AM the sun from the skylights above begin their cycle around the space illuminating the works in Night Sweat/ Day Glow, the current exhibition at Mayfield. The show is on view by appointment so send a message to receive a personal tour Images 1-8: 1) 10:31 AM Gabriel Villa, Self Portrait, underglazes on dark stoneware, 12 x 7 x 7 in. 2025 2) 12:31 PM Clara Schlie, Worm Pharaoh and His Ride to the Afterlife, 2025, cardboard, acrylic paint, paper, wood sticks, paper towels, chain, beads, clay, copper tape, beet juice dyed fabric, wire, grasshopper, cicada, beetles, mummified worm 3) 1:55 PM Erin Washington, an ouroboros, 2022, oil and acrylic on paper Kyle Schlie, Excitement for Dinner, 2025, Pen on paper plate, From the series Lunchtime Diagrams Saoirse Ahumada Furnin, 12 hours, 2024, Needle felted wool 4) 4:27 PM Saoirse Ahumada Furnin, Tape Drawing 3, 2025, masking tape and pen on studio table 5) 5:26 PM Alexis de Chaunac, Jambon Beurre (Pieles), 2025, couch, thick flax linens used by Publican Bread bakers to support dough during proofing, especially for baguettes, helping maintain their shape. 6) 5:31 PM Alexis de Chaunac, Jambon Beurre (Pieles), 2025 7) 5:36 PM Ray Madrigal, Ward, 2025, Canceled Link card, twelve holy charms, nail 3 ¼x2 ½" 8) 7:03PM Gabriel Villa, EL Rey de Xicago, 2020, oil paint on light stoneware, 12 x 8 x 6 in. night sweat ————— day glow April 26-August 31, 2025 What is left behind? The sweat on our bed sheets are an imprint of the distress, anguish and affliction caused by a harsh winter. As the seasons change the land begins to show signs of new life. Can we possibly reflect those signs back? V Aguirre Kyle Schlie Clara Schile Gabriel Villa Noelle Africh Ray Madrigal Ayanah Moor Ceninye Harris Kamille Kirshing Erin Washington Mauricio López F. Alexis de Chaunac Saoirse Ahumada Furin Mayfield 505 Marengo Avenue Forest Park IL 60130