Ligon similarly appropriates historical text and imagery related to Black American experience, using silkscreen and printmaking techniques to interrogate racial identity and the weight of representation in American culture. His work shares Walker's strategy of overlaying and obscuring found material to create uncomfortable tensions between legibility and erasure.

Kara Walker provocatively engages with historical imagery of racial violence and American slavery, forcing viewers to confront the ethics of representing traumatic history through bold graphic aesthetics. Like Kelley Walker, her practice deliberately unsettles viewers by deploying a visually seductive formal language around deeply painful subject matter.

Prince is a foundational figure in appropriation art who rephotographs and manipulates found commercial and press imagery to interrogate consumer culture and the politics of representation. His practice directly parallels Walker's method of digitally intervening in existing photographs to destabilize their original meaning and context.