
Maggie Ellis's *Chaos Bewitched*, her fourth solo exhibition at Charles Moffett and first since 2023, brings together 20 new paintings. Taking its title from Melville's *Moby-Dick*, the show presents dense compositions teeming with corporeal and ghostly figures, the living often indistinguishable from the dead. Ellis explores life and rot, conjuring what she calls a witches' brew around the painter's question: What if?