PROVIDENCE, RI.- Exploration, both physical and artistic, underlies the multi part sculptural projects in the Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design’s new summer exhibition, Journeys: Conrad Shawcross and Tavares Strachan, on view from Friday, July 8, 2011 through October 23, 2011. British artist Conrad Shawcross and Bahamian Tavares Strachan (RISD BFA ’03), both young artists in their 30s, separately engage and document a particular geographical location—New York City’s Gowanus Canal and Nassau, Bahamas—in their respective works, paired together in the exhibition. Using a range of materials and modes of presentation, the projects each reveal how artists employ scientific methods to explore issues of culture, travel, and technology. “These artists recall the historical precedent of the Enlightenment when artist scientists explored uncharted territories to record and understand natural phen