Born along the banks of the Hudson River, Adam Ace always had a passion for visual arts and nature. Ace creates work that implements the aesthetics once used by Hudson River School Painters. In paintings, pure imagination can be depicted within a scene. A composite of experience and idealism is represented on canvas by brush strokes. However, using the photographic medium, Ace reconceptualizes their approach to Luminism; by rendering the actual light, which happens to be the true subject of each existing day. In his efforts to locate that ethereal light, Adam embodies the painters’ passion for exploration.

Scouting undeveloped land was a trademark for the painters of the Hudson River School. They set out to discover distinctive elements and unrefined ideas of indigenous habitats. Therefore, as Ace sculpts contemporary landscapes of the Hudson River Valley, his own experiences from oversea adventures linger as he perceives New York’s historic past.

After an influential upbringing being surrounded by artists of all mediums, Ace went on to complete his Bachelors of Fine Arts in Photography at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. At his graduation on the stage of Radio City Music Hall, Ace was honored with the Rhodes Family Award for Outstanding Achievement in Photography.

Currently, Ace is employed by the Ossining Historical Society Museum as their Photo Archivist, Photographer and youngest member on their Board of Trustees. Adam takes after his father Art, Sing Sing Prison's Historian, by restoring local relics that date back to the early days of Photography. Through the OHSM, Ace has recently been retouching materials for National Geographic, The Discovery Channel and the Emmy Award winning television series MadMen. Whatever the future holds for him, he knows that creating Art will always be a part of his life.

Ace explores his eco-centric instinctions by rendering a unique style of sylvan lumanism. His studies have allowed him to develop a uniquely fantastical description of the land he reveres. Being immersed within local fables and forests since early in his childhood, Ace dares the viewer to embark on a visual hunt for harmony within a state of suspended disbelief.

As the viewer attempts to dissect the dynamic elements in each frame, they peruse for clues and symbols bearing on the question of who we are. Whether the idealistic depictions are of fact or artifice, or somewhere in between, they are now part of our harmonious history...our earthly origins.