Catching rays by the pool, reading gossip rags at the grocery store, eating a super-size bucket of popcorn at a Sunday matinee.

You’ve got doing nothing down to an art.

As does photographer Bill Owens. In Leisure, an exhibit that opens tomorrow, he showcases middle-class folks engaged in a multitude of I’ve-got-way-too-much-free-time activities like eating at McDonald’s, being bored at an air show, or hanging out at a Tupperware party.

Spanning from the late ’60s to the early ’80s, the pictures (in both black and white and color) take a playfully critical view of the American consumer lifestyle, delve into the culture of everyday suburbia, and look long and hard at the business of doing nothing.

And that, as it turns out, is really something.

Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery, 3115 Routh Street, Uptown (214-969-1852 or photographsdonotbend.com).