The Cheyenne Has Gone
Sponsored by: Brothers Jim & Tom DeCillis
Installed in April 2025
THE QUILT
The Cheyenne Has Gone
Size: 1220 x 610 cm
Year: 2012
Denim on Denim textile creation
Description:
Berry uses ordinary denim to create extraordinary art. “The Cheyenne Has Gone” features a former New York railroad car-style diner and soda fountain bar that closed in 2008 to make room for a nine-story condominium.
THE MAKER
Ian Berry
Born Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, UK
Lives and works in Poplar, East London
Berry, who is originally from the North of England provincial town of Huddersfield, that once had a booming textile industry found much success. He has caught many eyes and while the works are painstaking to make he had been able to take a few commissioned portraits; Debbie Harry, Jennifer Saunders, Giorgio Armani and Lapo Elkann and Brazilian model Giselle, to name a few. His most well known though, was one made of another Brazilian, Ayrton Senna, using his family's jeans and in support of the institute in his name. In 2021 he unveiled a portrait commission for the Italian city of Genoa of Garibaldi.
THE MURALIST
Tanya Neitzke
Metropolis, IL
Tanya Neitzke (b.Watertown, NY, maiden name: Gadbaw) received her M.F.A. degree at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale Illinois. Neitzke has been included in various solo, two-person, and group exhibitions nationally as well as internationally.
These exhibitions include, In Memory,a solo exhibition at the Sauk Valley Community College Art Gallery in Dixon, IL, Art+Energy+Future in the Museo Regionale Di Scienze Naturali, Turin Italy, and Tales They Told Us at the Lexington art League in Lexington KY. She also has been in numerous group exhibitions in the Zhou B. Art Center with the 33 Contemporary Gallery collective group.
Neitzke also loves to explore and experiment with her work and has been able to do so with completing a residency at the A.I.R. Studio in Paducah, KY. She also has been featured on the PBS show, Expressions. Currently, she is living in Brookport, Illinois and is the Painting and FYE Assistant Professor at the West Kentucky Community and Technical College’s Paducah School of Art and Design.
FUN FACTS
FUN FACTS
Ian Berry connected with Paducah as the featured artist at AQS QuiltWeek 2018. He later served as an Artist in Residence with the Paducah Arts Alliance, engaging with local schools and artists.
While working with students at Paducah Tilghman High School, Berry took their concerns for dull scissors to heart and coordinated an effort with AQS QuiltWeek vendors to donate new scissors to the High School art department.
Berry and Neitzke formed a friendship during his residency and connected throughout the painting process on social media.
Mural sponsors brothers Jim and Tom DeCillis are collectors of 1950s memorabilia. Jim’s historic home features a vintage soda fountain like the one in The Cheyenne Has Gone.
