Adam
Stephenson
Public Artist · Atlanta, GA
I paint really big paintings. And I put them where everyone can see them.
They reach people who would never walk into a gallery, and they reach them by surprise, at the right moment. I believe that encounter changes something. For the right person at the right time, it does.
Murals
Public commissions, festival walls, and permanent installations across the Southeast and beyond.
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Digital & Design
Festival posters, printed mural commissions, and illustration for print and digital.
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Figurative
Studio paintings and works on paper: figurative, abstract, and the territory between.
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Homecoming
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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Playing the Sound of the Wind
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
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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Selected Works
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Every wall is a conversation waiting to happen.
Whether you're thinking about a large-scale mural for a public space or a limited print for your home, I'd love to hear what you have in mind.