The self-taught California artist’s roots in the Hollywood film industry inform her mysterious paintings, which confront grief, memory and ecological ruin. Now, as she enters her eighties, the artworld is finally taking note
A new show at Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin presents paintings as an emblem of this commodification – but also a repository, for now, of potential ‘defence’
The sunny allure of John Korner’s canvases depicting melting glaciers ultimately draws into question his choice of medium to convey the scale of the disaster
