McElheny combines blown and cast glass with light, video, and conceptual frameworks to create immersive sculptural works that merge traditional glassmaking craft with contemporary media, closely mirroring Tate's integration of video technology within luminous cast glass forms.

Smith has created cast glass works featuring eyes, bodies, and symbolic circular forms with a glowing, jewel-like quality that shares Tate's focus on the eye as a central mystical and protective motif embedded within luminous sculptural glass.

Oursler is renowned for projecting video imagery of human eyes and faces onto sculptural objects, directly paralleling Tate's use of a video eye embedded within a cast glass sphere as the focal point of a wall mounted illuminated sculpture.