Artist Tavares Strachan’s LACMA exhibit, “The Day Tomorrow Began,” showcases his passions for science, exploration and the histories of marginalized people.

For example, to honor America’s first Black astronaut, Robert Henry Lawrence Jr., Strachan blasted a satellite with Lawrence’s likeness on it into orbit.

In this exhibit, he depicts Lawrence in argon trapped in electrified tubes shaped to resemble the human circulatory system.

Tavares Strachan loves to blur the lines that separate art, science and historical reckoning — as well as past, present and future.

A native of Nassau, Bahamas, he once carved out a 4.5-ton block of ice in the Alaskan Arctic, had it FedEx’ed to the island nation and displayed it in a solar-powered freezer — an extreme commentary on climate change, displacem

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