DEBRA MATLOCK

DESIGNER + ARTIST + FILMMAKER

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Debra is a graphic designer, filmmaker, painter, co-chair of the Los Feliz Improvement Association (LFIA) Environmental Committee and also co-chair of the LFIA Events Committee.

I think I first discovered Kimberly Drew from an article in Vogue several years ago. I like art but it was her fashion sense that caught my eye. I love her enthusiasm and joie de vivre. I’m so happy she has a book out (I preordered it ages ago

If you live in LA there is a list of
#blackownedrestaurant‘s and Bludso’s is on it. Their collard greens are my absolute favorite. You should totally get take out from them. Normally (in the Before Times) we would meet up there with @bra

This is my favorite Kerry James Marshall painting School of Beauty, School of Culture 2012. I love how it references (at least to my eye) Hans Holbein’s 1533 painting The Ambassadors with its anamorphosis skull. #elevatemelenatedvoices (I want

#elevatemelanatedvoices I was going to share a bunch of Black artists that I like, but I decided William Pope L.’s Trinket felt the most apropos for our times. It was at MOCA in 2015 and I came back multiple times. From the @moca website: Over

#blackouttuesday consider ways that you might help others and educate yourself: donate to (or join) an organization already doing good work, buy (and read!) some books by black authors, follow some black feminists on twitter and when you feel that ur

I don’t think this picture could be anymore 1974 if it tried. Avocado shag carpeting✔️crock pot✔️ bathrobe lifestyle✔️ Hacienda style chenille sofa✔️faux fur captain hat✔️mustache ✔️

Today’s Quarantine Cocktail Hour. A blackberry bramble and of course smokehouse almonds in bracingly tart salt and vinegar 😝 hurts so good. Current status: fishing out the leftover blackberry bits with my reusable straw. Nature’s boba.

Field trip to see @kerstin.bruchhaeuser’s art at @theresidencyproject 🙌🏻✨

Been doing a class online working with acrylic inks and I spotted them in a different video I was watching about Ralph Steadman. So this is my first attempt at trying to draw like him. Well...second...the first was a clown and I had to promise my fam

New game: Will it Jam? Strawberries, apricots, and a mango plus lemons 🤷🏼&zwj;♀️

Not gonna lie. This Mother’s Day was not the best.

Very quick little 5”x7” oil painting (of a photo) of a back room window at the @bluebottle downtown in the Bradbury building. Sort of #pleinair in that I used my pochade box.