Kiefer similarly incorporates industrial and scorched materials like lead, ash, and burned straw into large scale works that meditate on cultural memory, historical trauma, and the passage of time. His surfaces carry the same sense of deterioration and weight, transforming material decay into profound conceptual statements.

Ruscha consistently engages with American popular culture and mass media imagery through silkscreen and print techniques, elevating familiar commercial icons into conceptual art objects that question cultural memory and media saturation. His work shares Jackson's preoccupation with found American imagery rendered through industrial printmaking processes.

Gates transforms salvaged industrial and archival materials including steel, wood, and printed media into sculptural objects that explore post industrial aesthetics and the fragility of cultural and communal memory. His use of deteriorating found materials to carry historical and social meaning closely mirrors Jackson's approach in this piece.