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Case Studies

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Homecoming

2019 · Decatur, AL · 40′ × 70′

Painted in my hometown for the Alabama College of Art, and for my sister Lara Lee, who grew up on those same streets and passed away in 2006. Not a memorial, but a celebration of the beautiful, ephemeral parts of life. She holds a flower whose stem is dead but whose bloom is still full.

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Homecoming — 40×70 ft mural by Adam Stephenson in downtown Decatur, Alabama (2019)
Playing the Sound of the Wind — 24×48 ft mural by Adam Stephenson in Athens, Alabama (2021), commissioned for the Tennessee Valley Old Time Fiddlers Convention
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Playing the Sound of the Wind

2021 · Athens, AL · 24′ × 48′

Commissioned by Athens Main Street to honor the Tennessee Valley Old Times Fiddlers Convention. My family has always moved through the world by music. My grandfather hosted the Grand Ole Opry alongside Dolly Parton. My father passed in November 2020. This wall was a chance to honor all of it.

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The Scottie — multi-story mural by Adam Stephenson in Nashville, Tennessee (2023), Victorian-ornament panel inspired by the 1976 era
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The Scottie

2023 · Nashville, TN · Multi-story

Rangewater Real Estate came looking for something purely decorative for their new luxury development. I went back to my early studio work: deconstructed Victorian ornament, and a quiet nod to Nudie Cohn, the tailor who dressed the legends of country music since the 1940s. Nashville deserved more than wallpaper.

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The Scottie — Nashville, Tennessee mural by Adam Stephenson (2023), companion panel inspired by the 1982 era
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Appalachian Sunsets

2024 · Red Bank, TN · Four Walls

My first municipal public art commission. Four walls on a single building at the edge of the Tennessee River valley, where the land begins to lift into the Appalachian foothills. Four interpretations of the same mountain sunset, grounded in the city's name, its oak-leaf history, and the building's own architectural geometry.

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Appalachian Sunsets — public art mural by Adam Stephenson for the City of Red Bank, Tennessee (2024), full wall view
The Hall of the Magician — 3D art installation by Adam Stephenson at The Upton Luxury Apartments, Atlanta, Georgia (2026)
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The Hall of the Magician

2026 · The Upton, Atlanta, GA · 3D Installation

The largest and most ambitious project I've taken on. Gallery Residential commissioned an entire immersive room — ceiling, banners, floor, walls — at The Upton. The concept borrows its name from the Magician card of the tarot: the four elements laid out in one space, constellations running from banner to floor. In progress through 2026.

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True Strength

2022 · Pullman Yards, Atlanta, GA · 16′ × 16′

Painted live in front of a crowd as part of Pieces of Pullman at Pullman Yards. A figurative tarot-rooted piece drawing from the Strength card — not a warrior, but the ability to soothe what's wild inside you and move with it rather than against it. The wall where my figurative and symbolic work first clicked fully into the street-art vocabulary I'd been working in.

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True Strength — 16×16 ft figurative mural by Adam Stephenson at Pullman Yards, Atlanta, Georgia (2022)

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