Stephen Hilyard Mountain

February 6 to March 22, 2025
Artist’s Opening, Thursday, February 6, 6 to 8PM

IMAGES FROM THE EXHIBITION

Platform Gallery is pleased to present our third solo exhibition of photographs by Stephen Hilyard, titled Mountain. This series of five digital images of generic mountains was generated from photographs of lava cone formations in Iceland. The images have been manipulated to render the mountain forms perfectly symmetrical for part of their height. These are not images of particular mountains, but diagrams of the concept “Mountain” realized as iconic conical forms. Work from this series was recently included in the 2013 Wisconsin Triennial at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.

Stephen was the recipient of the prestigious international Lumen Prize in 2012 and a resident artist for the Arctic Circle program. He lives, works, and teaches in Madison, Wisconsin.

Image: Mountain 1, 2013, transparency in lightbox, edition of X, 53 x 38 inches