Super real

While Myron Stephens’ artwork may be ever-evolving in subject matter—landscapes, still lifes, figurative—one thing is unwavering: his technique. The Roseville-based Stephens is a trompe l’oeil master. In addition to creating super-realistic 3-D images on 2-D surfaces, he adds a bit of humor or pop-culture references into his pieces. In his new body of work, the Balance and Perspective series, he strays further away from his usual palette of earth tones by adding swaths of pinks, reds and touches of bright blues and greens; the most pop surrealist work we’ve seen by Stephens yet.