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Matt Deifer

@mattdeifer

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Multidimensional Artist
Founder & Creative Director @bodypaintme
Exhibiting at Carillon Tower Gallery

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Fengari, my sculptural bamboo scroll, is now on view at the Carillon Gallery as part of a new three-month exhibition.

Two paintings from the earlier exhibition were originally slated to come down, but the gallery asked to keep them on view, creating an unexpected opportunity to expand the installation with new work.

On view now in Uptown Charlotte through the winter. taken in Carillon Tower by @mattdeifer

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Last chance to see the current exhibition at the Carillon Gallery in Uptown Charlotte. Three walls of my work are currently on view, surrounding a Tingley masterpiece. We’re hanging the next show on Sunday, featuring one of my favorite paintings mounted on bamboo as a sculptural scroll. by @mattdeifer

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7 days ago

✨🐬🌟💜🦋✨ Full dolphin‑sonic bliss and magical fairy‑wing energy.

Our model lit up Charlotte at The Thing. Ithaca gets the next transmission. Oct 3 at @argoswarehouse. by @mattdeifer

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18 days ago

Why am I throwing a party in Ithaca? I live 700 miles away and spent the last decade on the West Coast.

TLDR: I was passed the torch in Ithaca and apparently never put it down.

If you want to hear the story, read on. I’m doing it because Ithaca had a massive influence on me. It left an imprint that changed the course of my entire artistic career.

Before Ithaca, my high‑school years were already wild. We were throwing parties, had a real scene, went on tour with Phish, went to legendary festivals, and made art nonstop. I had momentum, but Ithaca was the first place I lived where that energy found a thriving creative community to plug into.

In 2000, at 20 years old, I moved off campus into my first house, the home and studio of TripleX Productions. They were throwing raves all over New York and relocating to NYC. When they left, they passed me the torch. From that house, everything locked in.

I started producing concerts and throwing raves that went until noon, started a festival grounds, painted live on canvases at shows, and even did early bodypainting experiments. I was surrounded by burner collectives from SF and helping birth the See Spot art gallery in the Commons, a place where all of us created together. Ithaca wasn’t just inspiring. It was a collective engine.

Two people connected with me at the center of that world were Gwen and Avi. They were the connectors that made See Spot become a reality instead of a random one‑month exhibition.

Gwen hand painted these beautiful bodypaint signs she set up at those early parties and at See Spot. They sat next to hula‑hoopathon fundraisers, Happiness Parade costumes, and the Odyssey raves across the street. These signs were part of the shared language of the community. This summer we reconnected at the Art Barn at GrassRoots, and she showed them to me again. They’re over twenty five years old, in perfect condition, sitting alongside the original Happiness Parade wardrobe and props. Seeing them felt like opening a time capsule of everything we built together. I picked up one of the biggest jellyfish props and joined the parade. It felt like a breath of fresh air.

And Avi, who was part of that same creative wor taken in Ithaca, New York by @mattdeifer

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22 days ago

Human Scrapbooking on a Battleship. The most unlikely combinations sometimes hit the hardest.

After sixteen years of bodypainting across the country and lighting up so many venues in Philly, we finally hit the apex: the most famous battleship in history.

A glowing creature world, dancers going wild, and a crowd that locked into the Human Scrapbooking energy instantly.

We cracked Charlotte wide open this summer with our experience. Philly booked it and everyone said hell yes WE’RE SO DOWN! And now we’re taking that same transformative energy to NY next.

Ithaca on October 3.
Philly is calling our name again.

This Thing is becoming a traveling experience.
Let’s see where it lands next.

Much respect to the crews behind this massive night.

@departedtogether × @pex_phila_experiment × @theshakedownphilly by @mattdeifer

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24 days ago

TOMORROW. 🌀

Meet the full lineup bringing THE THING to life at Starlight tomorrow night. Swipe through to see the bodypainters, models, and DJ’s turning the room into a living art piece.

🌟 Starlight on 22nd, Charlotte
⏱️8pm - 12am, 21+
🎟️ Link in bio

Let’s go. 💫✨ by @mattdeifer

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a month ago

✨🦄 Live art like you’ve never seen before!

We’re manifesting magical energy this Friday at the Thing. Come get bodypainted by artists like @mattdeifer. He’s painting a model before the doors open at 8. When you arrive the room will be alive! Then he’ll help you become the art! 💫

Ticket link on our website! It’s all happening at @starlighton22nd in Charlotte. ✨♥️✨ by @mattdeifer

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a month ago

✨THIS FRIDAY!✨ The Thing returns to Charlotte 💫🌀

The Thing has birthed its own art form: the Human Scrapbooking Experience. Vintage rubber stamps, handcrafted blacklight bodypaint, glow stickers, glitter… the whole glowing thaaang. It’s basically a cosmic craft project for adults who like to dance.

GAVI on the decks. Live, bodypainted models. Mystical glowing art. 🦋🌟✨

And we’re bringing all that goodness into Starlight in NoDa. The portal is opening again and you’re all invited to dance, transform, and glow with us. 🤩🔥

September 18 • 8 pm - 12 am • 21+

Starlight on 22nd
422 E 22nd St, Charlotte, NC

Tickets on our website, Bodypaint.Me! by @mattdeifer

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Human Scrapbooking on a Battleship! Incredible “I don’t know what this is, but I’m IN” energy all night.

Here’s what we painted and stamped and glittered and stickered. Thank you Philly for such a lovely time.

Next stop for the Human Scrapbooking Experience: this Friday, back in Charlotte at @starlighton22nd. by @mattdeifer

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a month ago

Bald head? We have paint for that. 🥚🫟

Painted live at The Thing by @mattdeifer, @shanndy_land, and the @humanscrapbooking experience.

Come get painted at the next one. The transmission resumes Sep 18 at @starlighton22nd in Charlotte.

Tickets + info on our website. by @mattdeifer

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✨🔥✨ From underground studio raves to legacy venues 💫✨

The Thing started as a wild party inside a film studio and somehow became a whole new art form: the Human Scrapbooking Experience. Vintage rubber stamps, handcrafted blacklight bodypaint, glow stickers, glitter. If you know, you know 🤩💫

Next stop? A 3,000‑person rave on a battleship in Philly! Then we’re bringing it home to Charlotte, to Starlight, a newer venue built by the same artist family who started the NoDa Arts district back when it was just empty mills and pure creative grit. They didn’t follow a scene… they created it. You can feel that legacy in the space.

September 18. Come get painted and glow with us!

Bring your crew, wear something that glows, and let’s make some art together 👀🔥

@bodypaintme × @humanscrapbooking × @starlighton22nd by @mattdeifer

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a month ago

Current project: Mounting my cryptid buddies on foam by @mattdeifer

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