NEVAR
THOMAS JEAN NEVAR
Hoang Gia Fish Sauce Bottle Design 2025
OREGON-BASED ARTIST + DESIGNER
My work builds from layers of gesture, memory, and material. I use oil, ink, charcoal, steel, and stone, materials that resist control and reveal the marks of process. Each piece usually begins in disorder, with rough textures, broken lines, and the space between destruction and repair. The sculptures in steel and rock carry that same tension, holding both weight and balance, decay and form. My work often circles back to early memories and the pressure they leave behind, but it is not about telling a story. It is about showing what memory feels like when it rises, uneven, physical, and alive in the surface.
Contemporary aRT
My approach to branding is rooted in clarity, not decoration. I help individuals and organizations define who they are through visual language, tone, and structure, building systems that reflect the strength of their values rather than the style of the moment. With a background in design and decades of experience shaping brand identities at the executive level, I bring both strategic insight and creative instinct. Whether I am developing a brand from the ground up or refining something already in motion, the goal is the same: to make meaning visible and to ensure every element supports the story.
GRAPHIC ART
My photography is observational, not performative. I’m drawn to moments that hold tension quietly, spaces between structure and collapse, natural forms framed by human neglect, light behaving in unexpected ways. The work isn’t staged. It’s found, framed, and left intact. I’m not interested in spectacle. I’m interested in stillness, in evidence, in the subtle ways a place or object can carry memory. Like my other work, photography is part of the same process: making sense of form, pressure, and time.
