Welcome to ART CRUSH INTERNATIONAL! We take you to visit Mariam El Quessny in the Oakland apartment she shares with her husband and two small children. Quessny, originally from Egypt, has lived in California for five years and, despite being a graduate of the Pratt Institute’s School of Design, only recently begun to call herself an artist. She serves us dandelion tea, shows us the tightly packed studio corner she has carved out for herself, and tells us about ‘Motherhood Illustrated’, in which she transforms women’s photographs of gritty, unflattering motherhood experiences into lovingly detailed watercolour paintings. We make a fort in her kid’s bed.

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Mariam’s website:  https://www.motherhoodillustrated.com/

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Beautiful Online Thing: The Museo Larco pre-Colombian Erotic Gallery https://www.museolarco.org/en/exhibition/erotic-room/