Works
Exhibitions
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Maggie Ellis
Chaos Bewitched 30 October - 5 December 2026Charles Moffett is pleased to present Chaos Bewitched, a solo exhibition of new paintings by New York-based artist Maggie Ellis. This marks Ellis's fourth solo exhibition at Charles Moffett and her first since 2023. Taking its title from a phrase used in Herman Melville’s epic novel Moby-Dick, Chaos Bewitched brings together 20 new paintings that teem simultaneously with life and rot. Space is dense with figures both corporeal and ghostly, with the living often indistinguishable from the dead.Read more -
Longest Way Round 14 March - 19 April 2025Read more
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Not Too Late: A Benefit Exhibition Organized in Collaboration with Art into Acres 3 May - 7 June 2024This May, Charles Moffett is pleased to present a special group exhibition, Not Too Late, featuring new and recent work by 21 artists and organized in collaboration with Art into Acres. A long-term philanthropic partner of the gallery, Art into Acres was founded by artist and conservationist Haley Mellin in 2017 as a nonprofit initiative that transforms the proceeds from the sale of donated artworks into acres of conserved land. Through this special exhibition, the gallery strives to raise collective awareness and catalyze the fundraising for Indigenous-led land conservation. In a testament to the gallery’s steadfast commitment to this cause, Charles Moffett is honored that all ten of the gallery’s represented artists have donated their work to the exhibition; and is deeply appreciative of the generous contributions of eleven artists with whom the gallery has had close and meaningful ties throughout its first six years.Read more
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Maggie Ellis
Energy Broth 27 October - 9 December 2023Charles Moffett is pleased to present Energy Broth, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Atlanta-born, New York-based artist Maggie Ellis. The exhibition marks the painter's third solo show with the gallery and her first presentation in New York since fall 2021. Gathering together 10 new oil paintings, the gallery's show follows Ellis's first solo museum exhibition The Ride, presented earlier this year at SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA.Read more -
Maggie Ellis
Strange Strangers 16 October - 20 November 2021Charles Moffett is pleased to present Strange Strangers , a solo presentation of 13 large, figurative oil paintings by Maggie Ellis (b. 1991, Atlanta, Georgia; BFA SCAD 2014; MFA Hunter...Read more -
Alleviators
Curated by Christopher Rivera 17 July - 17 August 2021Read more -
Artists for NADA
Supporting the NADA Gallery Relief Fund 17 April - 10 May 2020Read more -
Maggie Ellis
Rosebud 26 April - 15 June 2019Charles Moffett is pleased to present Rosebud, featuring artist Maggie Ellis. The exhibition is the artist's inaugural solo show in New York, presenting a series of new figurative paintings.Read more
Biography
Maggie Ellis in her studio, Bronx, NY (US). Photo: Charlie Rubin
Maggie Ellis (b. 1991, Atlanta, Georgia; lives and works in New York, NY. MFA Hunter College 2017, BFA Savannah College of Art and Design 2014.) Ellis works from memory, sketching strangers she observes daily in New York. The figures are realized as they exist in her head-misremembered and partly formed, ripe for reinvention. Beginning each painting without a predetermined sense of place, she intuits her environments with abstract gestures, populated with these figures in action. Ring-lit backdrops illuminate people of all shapes, sizes, and patterns, while exaggerated perspectives and elongated features heighten the drama of fast-paced recreational scenes. Ellis' paintings center on the collective; within these communal spaces, strange things occur while rules of reality are bent. Charles Moffett will present Ellis' third solo exhibition with the gallery in October 2023.
Press
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Maggie Ellis | 'Strange Strangers' on View at Charles Moffett
Madison Douglas, Flaunt, 27 October 2021 -
The First, And Perhaps The Last, Great New York City Pandemic Painter
Brienne Walsh, Forbes, 27 October 2021 -
Promising Early Results Emerge from NADA's Profit-Pooling Online Art Fair
Shannon Lee, Artsy, 28 May 2020
