Member Since:
April 16, 2023
Ivan Jenson
Biography
Ivan Jenson is a fine artist, novelist, and popular contemporary poet who lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
His artwork was featured in Art in America, Art News, and Interview Magazine and has sold at auction at Christie’s. Amongst Ivan’s commissions are the final portrait of the late Malcolm Forbes and a painting titled “Absolut Jenson” for Absolut Vodka’s national ad campaign. His Absolut paintings are in the collection of the Spritmuseum, the Museum of Spirits in Stockholm, Sweden. Jenson's painting of the “Marlboro Man” was collected by the Philip Morris corporation.
His novels, Dead Artist and Seeing Soriah, illustrate the creative, often dramatic lives of artists. Jenson’s poetry is widely published (with over 1,000 poems published in the US, UK, and Europe) in a variety of literary media. He has published a poetry book, Media Child and Other Poems, and two novels, Marketing Mia and Erotic Rights.
Mundane Miracles, his critically acclaimed poetry collection, hit number 1 on Amazon in American Poetry.
His artwork was featured in Art in America, Art News, and Interview Magazine and has sold at auction at Christie’s. Amongst Ivan’s commissions are the final portrait of the late Malcolm Forbes and a painting titled “Absolut Jenson” for Absolut Vodka’s national ad campaign. His Absolut paintings are in the collection of the Spritmuseum, the Museum of Spirits in Stockholm, Sweden. Jenson's painting of the “Marlboro Man” was collected by the Philip Morris corporation.
His novels, Dead Artist and Seeing Soriah, illustrate the creative, often dramatic lives of artists. Jenson’s poetry is widely published (with over 1,000 poems published in the US, UK, and Europe) in a variety of literary media. He has published a poetry book, Media Child and Other Poems, and two novels, Marketing Mia and Erotic Rights.
Mundane Miracles, his critically acclaimed poetry collection, hit number 1 on Amazon in American Poetry.
Books
The Tigress
by Ivan Jenson
Price:
$9.99 USD.
Words: 77,550.
Language:
English.
Published: August 1, 2023
by
Introverted Soul Collective Press.
Categories:
Fiction » Women's fiction » Chick lit, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Psychological thriller, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Psychological
Thirty-five-year-old Wendy Shaw has just been, as she puts it, "unleashed" from a three-month stay in a psychiatric institution in New York. Now, seeking emotional respite in her older sister's West Michigan home, Wendy makes the conscious decision to give up her cosmopolitan life as a trendy nightclub promoter to take time to heal from the death of her three ex-lovers: one by suicide, one by...
East of Ivan
by Ivan Jenson
Price:
$7.99 USD.
Words: 165,720.
Language:
English.
Published: April 30, 2023
by
Introverted Soul Collective Press.
Categories:
Nonfiction » Art, Architecture, Photography, Nonfiction » Antiques & Collectibles » Art, Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir, Nonfiction » Biography » Artists, architects, & photographers
East of Ivan is Amazon's #1 best-selling poet and author Ivan Jenson's sweeping, raw, comic memoir of his personal and artistic journey as an iconic pop artist. It's a bumpy, thrilling ride from LA to Costa Rica, Bloomington, New Rochelle, and finally, the gritty streets of New York City, where he achieves unexpected, unprecedented success in the historic East Village art scene of the '80s.