Wool similarly works with bold gestural marks on unconventional surfaces, combining conceptual rigor with raw material presence in a dark and confrontational visual language.

Stingel shares Jackson's interest in foregrounding the physical surface and material substrate of painting, often using stained or treated grounds that blur abstraction with conceptual inquiry.

Bradley's gestural abstract paintings on raw or treated panels echo the bold, materially aware approach in Sledgehammer, combining geometric sensibility with an unfinished and conceptually loaded aesthetic.