curated by Ana Vejzovic

Rest Assured explores the complicated relationship between labor and leisure in our contemporary society. Depicting leisurely moments that are disjointed or awkward, the drawings, sculptures, and videos created by David Kramer, Euan Macdonald, Renata Poljak, and Chris Vorhees posit that free time has become too structured in today's world. These four artists confront their own issues regarding labor and artistic process, either by approaching leisure as a metaphor or by dismantling the myth of leisure altogether.

In addition to Rest Assured, the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College will also present five other exhibitions curated by students in the Center's graduate program in curatorial studies and contemporary art. Organized by the students as part of the requirement for the master's degree, the five other exhibitions—To What End?; Split: Women in Dislocation; More Than A Thousand Words; This Is Us; Subscribe: Recent Art in Print—will be on view from May 11 to 25, 2003.