Exhibitions and Events

Close-up photograph of a beetle with metallic gold and green coloration on a black background. The text indicates a paedia fine arts exhibit at the Randall Museum, January to April 2026, with the museum's website and address listed.

Exterior of the Randall Museum with brick walls, large glass doors, and a sign with two hands reaching towards each other. There are bushes and a green bench outside, and three flags flying on the roof.

People viewing and discussing butterfly and insect photographs in an exhibit, with one person seated at a table and another standing nearby, and a wet floor caution sign in the foreground.

Two people standing in front of a display wall with butterfly photographs and informational posters, in an indoor setting with large windows and another exhibit in the background.

Display of various moths in glass cases with the label 'Moths' at the top.

People sitting and walking inside a museum exhibit area with insect displays behind glass panels and signs indicating insects. Two children are sitting, and a young girl is walking nearby.

Photograph of insect illustrations, featuring a large beetle and a smaller insect, mounted on a wooden display board in a museum or exhibit setting.

Visitors seated in a cafe inside a museum with display cases and informational boards, some eating and talking, children and adults, with a green wall and large windows in the background.

Display board showcasing various butterfly specimens and close-up photographs of butterflies, with informational text and labels.

Large insect model displayed in a glass case with information panel outside.

I am pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibit titled “Close-up/Details”. The exhibit is curated by my company, Paedia Fine Arts, LLC, and hosted by The Randall Museum in San Francisco, California. It is a collection of photographs of butterflies, moths, and insects. The title of the show arises from the uniqueness of the images being presented. All photographs are taken close-up to the subjects in order to reveal details that are seldom seen with casual observation. The Randall Museum is a Natural History Museum, a Science Museum, and Arts Center. There is more information about the Museum, including its location and hours, here.

The works in the exhibit are selected high resolution images from the collections below. The smallest details of insects and plants can be seen close-up and the same images can be enjoyed from across a room. All are available to purchase here on this website. Please visit the Museum and enjoy the beauty you will find there!

Doug Clark

Paedia Fine Arts

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March 19 through May 3, 2026

Small Wonders

An art gallery with framed paintings on white walls, a wooden bench in the foreground, and a piano in the background.

Framed artwork of a moth with detailed wings, displayed on a wall

Two framed abstract artworks featuring yellow shapes on a textured background, displayed on a wall. The upper piece shows a yellow shape within a brownish frame, and the lower piece depicts a similar yellow shape in a darker, more muted background.

I am pleased to announce Paedia Fine Arts’ participation in a group exhibition, titled Small Wonders, and hosted by monca, The Museum of Northern California Art in Chico, California. monca was incorporated in 2011 and is located in the former Veterans Memorial Building at 900 Esplanade in Chico, California. monca’s mission is “to make art accessible and promote awareness of Northern California artists through collections, exhibitions and educational programs.”

“Small Wonders is a juried art exhibition featuring work inspired by the beauty, mystery, and significance of the microscopic, the miniature, and the overlooked. This exhibition offers an opportunity to magnify the unnoticed and reveal worlds within worlds. Artists were encouraged to explore scale, detail, and viewpoint. Join us in remembering that even the tiniest details can hold vast meaning. Pieces of many mediums will be featured in this exhibition, positing how each artist interprets the idea of smallness and wonder differently. Visiting the Small Wonders exhibition will have you looking closer, much closer…” (…from the monca website.) See more information about this event here.

Paedia Fine Arts’ contributions in the exhibit include high resolution, enlarged images selected from the collections below: stomata, the breathing pores of plants, a lanternfly from Peru, a scarab beetle from Mexico, and a longhorn beetle from Cameroon. Close-up macro and micro photographic techniques are used to bring out details that aren’t normally seen with casual observation, enabling a deeper appreciation of the beauty in small worlds around us.