Celmins creates obsessively detailed photorealist paintings of everyday surfaces and textures, sharing Mühlenbrink's focus on visual deception and the philosophical act of looking. Her meticulous rendering of ocean surfaces, spider webs, and night skies prompts the same perceptual questioning about representation versus reality.

Spence works in hyper realistic oil painting of transparent and reflective surfaces including glass and condensation, directly paralleling Mühlenbrink's trompe l'oeil explorations of water droplets and window panes. Both artists use photorealist technique to interrogate perception and the boundary between painted illusion and physical reality.

Sparnaay is a Dutch hyperrealist painter who renders mundane everyday objects and packaging materials at monumental scale with obsessive detail, closely mirroring Mühlenbrink's large scale canvases and focus on material culture and everyday objects. Both artists elevate overlooked surfaces and humble materials into conceptually charged still life paintings.