El Anatsui similarly transforms industrial and discarded materials like bottle caps and wire into large scale works that evoke landscape and abstraction, sharing Gates' commitment to assemblage techniques and conceptual depth rooted in material history.

Rauschenberg's combine paintings incorporated found industrial and everyday objects into framed assemblages that blurred abstraction and landscape references, directly paralleling Gates' use of unconventional materials like wood and hose within a formal compositional structure.

Bradford constructs large abstract works using industrial and urban materials that evoke landscape and terrain, sharing Gates' industrial aesthetic, conceptual grounding, and interest in reinterpreting landscape through non traditional mixed media approaches.