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Art Studio of Erin McCluskey Wheeler Collage and mixed media artist and art instructor in the San Francisco Bay Area

When I was in high school, I had a dream that after you died, you went to heaven in the backseat of a convertible Studeb...
13/04/2026

When I was in high school, I had a dream that after you died, you went to heaven in the backseat of a convertible Studebaker. The redeemed sat in the back, waving and smiling with God (a ball of light) at the wheel. In my dream, it was my uncle Paul in the backseat of the Studebaker. He died in 1989 (maybe 1990?) from AIDS at the height of the AIDS epidemic and he showed up in my dreams all the time. I had forgotten about the Studebaker dream until I made the painting with the Ford Falcon and the woman pulling down the sky. I bought these ads on eBay since my collection of 1000+ vintage car ads is pretty classic American (Chevy, Ford, Plymouth, Pontiac...) and they're from vintage Sunset magazines so featuring women in the ads makes sense. These are "Hold on the night," (yellow car), and "Full Moon Night" (red car).

Thank you to everyone who came out in an unexpected rain storm to the opening on Saturday. I'll be teaching a class at next Saturday from 2 - 5pm on painting and vintage magazines. The gallery will be open and if you're not signed up the class, feel free to wave at me in the classroom! Prints are available in the gallery and will be on my website after the show closes.

From my upcoming show, “Women in Cars, April 2026 Artist reception April 11, 4:30 - 6:30 pmWorkshop April 18, 2 - 5 pm
10/03/2026

From my upcoming show, “Women in Cars, April 2026
Artist reception April 11, 4:30 - 6:30 pm
Workshop April 18, 2 - 5 pm

I’m working on a new collection of car paintings even though I swore I would never make another one after my show in 202...
10/03/2026

I’m working on a new collection of car paintings even though I swore I would never make another one after my show in 2022. But this time it’s different - they’ll go into a small gallery space and because they are small paintings, they will look right in the space. I’m showing them in thrift store vintage frames and each piece is carefully matched to its frame. And the cars (mostly) have drivers and most of the drivers are women. Everything is less certain and weirder in their worlds.

Come see “Women in Cars” (23rd and Telegraph, Oakland) in April 2026

Artist reception on April 11, 4:30 - 6:30 and a paint and vintage magazine workshop and artists talk on April 18 (sign up with )

This Sunday, 2/22/26, I’ll be teaching a collage workshop based on one of my favorite inspiration artists: Sonia Delauna...
17/02/2026

This Sunday, 2/22/26, I’ll be teaching a collage workshop based on one of my favorite inspiration artists: Sonia Delaunay. This workshop will be at and you could spend the whole day making collage - in the morning with .r.grant and then with me in the afternoon, moving from narrative to abstraction with paper, scissors, and glue. See you there!

What did I do today? Drew an abalone shell in soft pastel and I can’t stop looking at it so now you can look at it too -...
13/02/2026

What did I do today? Drew an abalone shell in soft pastel and I can’t stop looking at it so now you can look at it too - glad to be back in class with (not pictured Jennifer’s bright turquoise used in class)

Last week one of my students asked me what I was working on in the studio and didn’t have a good answer so I decided to ...
22/01/2026

Last week one of my students asked me what I was working on in the studio and didn’t have a good answer so I decided to make something new. I really like looking at reproductions of Georgia O’Keeffe paintings and trying to reproduce them in collage. This is my third Georgia O’Keeffe collage study. Her colors are so good and I usually have to paint more paper and dig deep into my collection of painted papers to find everything I need. There are a few painted paper gems from and in this piece and lots and lots of my painted papers. This is based on Georgia O’Keeffe’s Untitled (Abstraction) from 1918 published in Modern Nature: Georgia O’Keeffe and Lake George. I like that my red shape in the center leans the opposite way, like I was looking at mirror image. And who would think to put mint green and pale peach inside all that red? My dream would be to have these pieces in a show with other contemporary artists who are dreaming and thinking about Georgia O’Keeffe’s paintings. (just putting it out there)

I’m shipping out this painting today to one of my students and I’m so grateful for being able to teach art to so many pe...
13/01/2026

I’m shipping out this painting today to one of my students and I’m so grateful for being able to teach art to so many people across the country with - it’s my 6th year of teaching online collage classes from my studio in California. This is part of my series of paintings, “The Surface of the Moon is a Record of… (water, fire, tectonic shifts, collisions, etc.). Each painting is done on top of a failed collage and the surface of the paper carries all those marks and scars with it.

Made using papers painted by while teaching a lesson on to my collage class
02/11/2025

Made using papers painted by while teaching a lesson on to my collage class

From the archives: while getting ready to teach my Collage Then and Now class online with today, I remembered this piec...
31/10/2025

From the archives: while getting ready to teach my Collage Then and Now class online with today, I remembered this piece, or rather saw it again on the high up shelf where is lives in my house. I made this piece many, many years ago after my next door neighbor, Mary Jane, passed away. She was my “third grandmother” and I spent a lot of my youth climbing over the fence between my backyard and her back deck (the novelty of entering someone’s home through a door that wasn’t the front door) and visiting with Mary Jane in her living room. She always had cookies for me. She was a wheelchair user and spent a lot of her days wrapping long stretches of medical gauze into usable lengths, setting each bundle into a box. In my fuzzy childhood memories (half things experienced and half things people told me later), this was a job she did for a volunteer clinic. In my piece, I like the collaboration with a mud dauber insect who started to build a nest in the corner of this box during one of its periods of storage. Materials: found wooden box, one clothesline, yarn, string, frame, text, mud dauber home

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