Gendron jensen biography of michael
Michael's step-father, American artist and Minnesota native Gendron Jensen, is the subject of the film 'Poustinia', which won the award for Best Short.
Born in River Falls, Wis., Jensen grew up in Grand Rapids, Minn.!
The Beauty of Bare Bones
The room is replete with bones. They fill shelves and boxes, embellish windowsills and walls. A Pleistocene cave bear skull from Russia's Ural Mountains dominates one shelf.
Gendron Jensen has, since , completed over one thousand large-scale pencil drawings, searching to capture the spiritual meanings of selected fossils and.Nearby reside the relics of elk and lynx, coyote and loon, pelican and wolf. Old cigar boxes overflow with other, smaller bones.
From this workroom in his home in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of northern New Mexico, artist Gendron Jensen looks out over the Rio del Pueblo Valley.
From time to time eagles fly past, following the course of the river below. Jensen lives close to nature here--close to the heart and soul of his art.
For more than 30 years the 58-year-old artist has devoted himself to transforming relics from nature's midden into art objects of uncommon beauty.
His meticulously rendered, often monumental, graphite drawings of bones invite the viewer to see these relics in a new way--to journey beyond their ordinary anatomical context to a deeper, more spiritual realm. Conj
