Brant Isaacoff was born in Brooklyn, NY, and attended Far Rockaway High School in New York City where he received the Saint-Gaudens medal for Art upon graduation in June of 1968.
Mr. Isaacoff graduated from Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky in 1972 with a BA in Fine Art Education with a minor in Psychology.
He received his MS from Adelphi University in Art Special Education in 1976.
For the next 30 years he worked in the retail industry as an Operations Executive and raised a family with his wife Nancy.
Upon retirement at age 59, Mr. Isaacoff decided to return to the arts and resumed his passion as a potter and photographer.
"Growing up in NYC afforded me an opportunity to hop on the A train in the Rockaway’s and head into Manhattan to go to the museums."
"I was at the Whitney in the late 60’s and saw an exhibited piece by Paul Thek. The piece represented a hunk of meat in a plexi-glass box. I was awe struck and that stayed with me into my own work letting me think of art ‘out of the box’."
I decided that I didn’t want to make the regular bowels and pots and mugs out of clay so I create multi-media work using clay and other materials out of my imagination.
