Caroline Orner

Education

Awards

Exhibitions

  • 2008
    • Blue Plate Special, Washington County Arts Council Gallery, Hagerstown, Maryland
    • 76th Annual Cumberland Valley Artists Exhibition, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, Maryland
    • Shouts From The Wall, Washington County Arts Council Gallery, Hagerstown, Maryland
  • 2007
    • 75th Cumberland Valley Artists Exhibition, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, Maryland
    • 2 x 2 Small Works, Washington County Arts Council Gallery, Hagerstown, Maryland
    • The Power of Geometry [One-man show], Washington County Arts Council Gallery, Hagerstown, Maryland
    • 2008 Black and White Affaire, Washington County Arts Council Gallery, Hagerstown, MD
    • 7th Annual Members' Exhibition, AAC Saville Gallery, Cumberland, MD
  • 2003
    • Eternal Circles, Western Wyoming College, Rock Springs, Wyoming
    • Rude and Bold Women, Visual and Performance Art, Binghamton, New York
  • 2001
    • Spacia, The Millennium Arts Center, Washington, DC
  • 2000
    • Eternity, Curator by J.W. Mahoney, Govinda Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 1999
    • Works on Paper, The Alla Rogers Gallery, Washington, DC
    • Council Room: The Artist Heraldry Show, McLean Project for the Arts, Emerson Gallery, McLean, Virginia
  • 1996
    • Works by J.W. Mahoney, Caroline Orner, John Ruppert and John Wojciech, Andrea Pollan Fine Arts, Washington, DC
  • 1992
    • Diagrams of The Sacred, DC Jewish Community Center, Washington, DC
  • 1991
    • Caroline H. Orner, Knight-Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
  • 1990
    • Metaphoric Structures - Science, Symbols and Matter, Strathmore Hall Arts Center, North Bethesda, Maryland
    • The Present of The Past, The Alla Rogers Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 1989
    • Elegies, The Tartt Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 1988
    • Lunar Forces, Winston Gallery, Washington, DC
    • Secrets, Gallery 10, Washington, DC
    • Small and Choice, Winston Gallery, Washington, DC
    • Transcendence, Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, DC
  • 1987
    • Caroline Orner: Recent Paintings, Winston Gallery, Washington, DC
    • Paintings Large and Small, Athenaeum, Alexandria, Virginia
    • 8th Annual Art Auction, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC
  • 1986
    • Structural Lyricism, Studio K Gallery, New York, New York
    • 22nd Annual Juried Show, Academy of the Arts, Easton, Maryland
    • Quiet, Gallery K, Washington, DC, assembled by J.W. Mahoney
    • Caroline H. Orner, Studio K Gallery, New York, New York
  • 1985
    • Traditions and Innovations, Dimock Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, DC
    • Crafts, Jacobs, and Orner, Studio K Gallery, New York, New York
    • Screens and Scrolls, Academy of the Arts, Easton, Maryland
    • The First Show, Studio K Gallery, New York, New York
  • 1984
    • James McLaughlin Memorial Staff Show, the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
    • Mayor's Benefit of the Arts, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
    • Abstract Paintings and Sculpture, Gallery K, Washington, DC
    • 1984 Mid-Atlantic Art Exhibition, F.C.A.A., Juror: Lynda Hertigan, National Museum of American Art
    • 20th Annual Juried Show, Academy of the Arts, Easton, Maryland, Juror: Grace Gluek
    • Fourteenth Annual Juried Athenaeum Show, Athenaeum, Alexandria, Virginia, Juror: Willem de Looper, the Phillips Collection
    • Membership Exhibition, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, Virginia
    • Caroline H. Orner, in conjunction with the Dumbarton Avenue Concert Series, Washington, DC
    • 1984 Maryland Annual General Assembly Art Exhibition, Annapolis, Maryland, Jurors: Howard Fox, Lee Fleming, Richard Madigin
    • Anton '84, Anton Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 1983
    • Recent Paintings-Caroline H. Orner, Anton Gallery, Washington DC
    • Urban Artist '83, Market 5 Gallery, Washington, DC, Juror: Sam Gilliam
    • Area-Wide Juried Painting Exhibition, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, Virginia, Juror: Frederick R. Brandt
    • 1983 Maryland Annual General Assembly Art Exhibition, Annapolis, Maryland, Jurors: Howard Fox, Claire List, David Miller
    • Membership Exhibition, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, Virginia
  • 1982
    • Artscape '82, Baltimore, Maryland, Jurors: Marcia Tucker, New Museum;
    • Ivan Karp, O.K. Harris, Romare Bearden, Caroline H. Orner, Spectrum Arts Ltd., Great Falls, Virginia
  • 1980
    • 22nd Area Exhibition-Works on Paper, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Juror: William S. Lieberman
    • Space Gallery Juried Painting Show, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland

Bibliography

Inspiration

Inspirational Books
 
A.A. Milne
"Suppose a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?"
"Suppose it didn't." said Pooh after careful thought.
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"Because Poetry and Hums aren't things you get, they're things which get you. And all you can do is to go where they can find you."
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"Pooh began to feel a little more comfortable, because when you are a bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside of you is quite different when it gets out in the open and has other people looking at it."
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Alarius
"The Universe rearranges itself to accommodate your picture of reality."
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"Consider the possibility of something else being real."
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"Live a life in service to a vast and noble purpose."
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"Follow your spirit without hesitation."
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Albert Einstein
"Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind."
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"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and Science."
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Anonymous
"Why should you doubt that, in which, God has full faith."
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"Your God is that which holds your attention."
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"We play these little games of one-upmanship to prove who has the most power, and to what gain - to miss completely the point of our existence."
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"The present is the present!"
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"The last of all human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances."
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"The greatest form of love is to allow the consequences of another's choices."
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Brian Greene
"Much in the same manner that they affect art and music, such symmetries are deeply satisfying; they highlight an order and a coherence in the workings of nature, the elegance of rich, complex, and diverse phenomena emerging form a simple set of universal laws is at least part of what physicists mean when they invoke the term 'beautiful'."
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Buckminister Fuller
"I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth."
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"God, to me, it seems, is a verb."
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"What ever I am is not my physical self."
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C.H. Orner
"When one feels love for another, the love they feel does not come from the other, it comes from within themselves. The other merely ignites the fire of love within."
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Confucius
"Have no friends not equal to yourself."
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Edward Dugmore
"It's not the painting that counts, it's the painting."
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Emerson
"Most of us are so busy living the lives we planned that we forget to live the life that is possible."
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Georges Braque
"The truth happens. Lies must be invented."
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Jacob Boehme 1575-1624
"Whatever the self describes, describes the self."
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Judith Walters
"It takes a lot of strength to feel."
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"If you lie with dogs, you wake with fleas!"
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Kazimir Malevich
"... the divine, transcendent, perfect beauty of the square is visible ... and filling in a square by hand, without crossing the outlines, is the most humbling and humiliating labor known to man."
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Ken Carey
"You are the template. The prototype of a new and universal species, part solar, part material, both temporal and eternal... Through you a new and unprecedented cycle of creation will occur."
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"To orient you life around a structure of some other human being's understanding is to worship a false God. "
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"Art has always imitated [and the finest art has always led to] reality."
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L. Frank Baum
"You see Dorothy, it was in you all the time."
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Rumi by John Moyne and Coleman Barks
"The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you,
Don't go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want,
Don't go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill,
where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don't go back to sleep."
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"We are walking through a garden.
I turn away for a minute.
You're doing it again,
You have my face here, but you look at flowers."
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"Your eyes now drunk with God,
mine looking at you,
one drunkard takes care of another."
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Shakespeare
"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."
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The Bagavad Gita
"Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is."
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Thich Nhat Nahn
"There is no enlightenment outside of daily life."
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Vincent Van Gogh
"To believe in God for me is to feel that there is a God, ...a living one, who with irresistible force urges us towards more loving."
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Walter Russell
"Man's purpose on Earth is to build happiness, peace and good will on Earth... He is building chaos and expecting his chaos to crystallize into a unity. That is impossible."
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