James Maurelle’s artistic practice eludes categorization. Maurelle, who initially studied filmmaking before embracing sculpture and installation, crosses mediums and subject matter through repurposing ordinary found materials. As a result, each object forms part of a lively ecosystem, resisting the logic of a commercial art market that places outsize influence on the singular work of art, particularly in its reactionary embrace of Black artists. Through this wide-ranging oeuvre, Maurelle confers familiar objects with new meanings that express radical visions of Black agency and self-determination.