More than an Athlete Mural by Brian Peterson Art Inc in Miami

The Hollywood & Highland mural is on the fourth-floor terrace of the center at 6801 Hollywood Blvd., within steps of the Dolby Theatre, where Bryant received the Oscar at the Academy Awards ceremony. DJM Capital Partners commissioned the mural, visible to passersby on the street, as part of a public arts initiative. Peterson, well known in Orange County for his portraits of homeless people, painted his first Los Angeles-area mural last year, a tribute to the leaping skills of Bryant and Los Angeles Dodger Mookie Betts, and the Los Angeles community’s ability to “rise above.” It faces the parking lot of Philippe the Original eatery near Union Station. Peterson said during Thursday’s event that it was while he was painting that mural of Betts and Bryant, recently inducted posthumously into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, that he got hit with the idea — that “no one’s painted the mural that Kobe would have wanted.” “I have this idea of painting a mural of Kobe receiving an Oscar,” he said he told Hollywood & Highland officials.