A title:
Assigning a title is a good place to start but, “what’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” An Artist. A Craftsperson who designs? A Designer or crafts? Say he merely an inquisitive tinkerer, sculptor, or perhaps a painter. Titles are limiting and limits, to a creative person, restrict absolute access to their potential. In general terms, Brandon Spector is a Maker.
The path of a Maker:
Brandon grew up, lives, and works within Bucks County Pennsylvania. As a child his play was drawing and building with legos or making stick forts in the forest. This engagement creating paving a path towards earning a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts degree focusing on oil painting and sculpture. After University he moved to Philadelphia to work with his family’s home remodeling company. While there he learned the ways of the carpenter, the efforts of hard labor, and the value that time and patience play in executing exquisite work. Aspiring to stay true to his ‘Artist’ title Brandon started experimenting by developing his own methods and style of furniture from collecting discarded cut offs and salvaging timbers. During this time Brandon met a wood artist who would become his mentor and who reinvigorated his love for the fine woodworking he had experienced in grade school shop classes. After 2 years in the city he retuned to Bucks county to pursue the arts. He became a painting instructor and an apprentice to a painting preservationist all the while being a freelance furniture maker and artist. In 2015 Brandon joined the George Nakashima Woodworkers team as an apprentice building conservationist, a documentarian, and woodworker. Today he is a full time woodworker with the Nakashima team and also creates Brandon originals from his home shop. In his free time he enjoys hiking in the vast Pennsylvania forests, exercising, and enjoys most of all his cat. Angus.
The Truth:
'I can't tell anyone anything about my building. If I prepared a hash of words to stuff into other people's brains, it would be an insult to them and to me. But I am glad you came here. I do have something to say. I want to ask every man who is interested in this to go and see the building, to look at it and then to use words of his own mind, if he cares to speak.' ― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead.
Thank you for your interest in a Maker and his work.