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Stephen Bush's Ficus Elastica (2007).Image courtesy of the artist and Goff + Rosenthal, New York.
Aussie painter Stephen Bush dreams in DayGlo: the colossal Ficus Elastica — an eye-popping visual orgy — is one of seven seemingly acid-drenched (it's paint, we swear) paintings up at Goff + Rosenthal through October 20. —Rachel Wolff

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