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Gain insight into Robert Rauschenberg and the Flatbed Picture Plane from Christian Wurst, Sheldon’s associate curator of exhibitions, who organized the exhibition.

With support from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Sheldon joins an international roster of institutions commemorating the centennial of the artist’s birth. The exhibition presents nine editioned works from the museum’s collection, examined through art historian Leo Steinberg’s concept of the flatbed picture plane.

This curator tour is free and open to everyone. Space is limited; please register at go.unl.edu/curator-tour-oct-18. 

About Christian Wurst

Christian Wurst is the associate curator for exhibitions at Sheldon Museum of Art. 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, 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.