Sheldon Museum of Art Associate Curator of Exhibitions Christian Wurst discusses Robert Rauschenberg’s works and the concept of the flatbed picture plane in this exhibition tour. 

Robert Rauschenberg and the Flatbed Picture Plane celebrates the artist’s centennial celebration through presenting and contextualizing the Rauschenberg works in Sheldon’s collection through the lens of art critic Leo Steinberg’s concept of the flatbed picture plane.  

The exhibition and its programming are supported by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. 

This curator tour is free and open to everyone. Space is limited; please register. 

About Christian Wurst:

Christian Wurst is the associate curator for exhibitions at Sheldon Museum of Art, The University of Nebraska­–Lincoln. Recent exhibitions include Uncanny Encounters: The Disturbing, Surreal and Supernatural in American Art (2024), Unprecedented: Art in Times of Crisis (2024), Sheldon Treasures: Edward Hopper and His Contemporaries (2023), and Photographic Abstraction (2022). Prior to Sheldon, he was the Curatorial Assistant to the Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs at the Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin. At the Blanton, he curated Without Limits: Helen Frankenthaler, Abstraction, and the Language of Print (2021) and Arte Sin Fronteras: Prints from the Self Help Graphics Studio (2019), Jeremy Blake: Winchester Trilogy (2019) and Line Form Color (2017). His essay “Happy Hour: The Pairings of Jasper Johns and Felix Gonzalez-Torres” was published in the anthology Two for One: Doppelgängers, Alter Egos, Reflected Images, and Other Duples in Western Art, 1800–2000 (McFarland Books, 2020). He earned his master’s degree in modern & contemporary American art at the University of Florida, Gainesville.