Cecily Brown creates oil paintings that blend interior and dreamlike spaces with expressive color and implied narrative, closely mirroring the whimsical and surreal domestic atmosphere found in Basement.

Dana Schutz is an American contemporary painter known for colorful, psychologically charged interior and figurative scenes rendered in oil that share the surreal and narrative driven qualities of Hughes' Basement.

Allison Gildersleeve paints abstract and semi representational interior environments with expressive color and a dreamlike quality that closely echoes the whimsical and colorful domestic space depicted in Basement.