The Leo Kamen Gallery is pleased to present its summer exhibition, Walking the Dog Back Home, which opens on Saturday, June 23, and runs until July 14. The gallery is closed from July 15 to August 13, after which the exhibition resumes through Saturday, September 8.

Walking the Dog Back Home follows on the heels of last summer’s exhibition, Taking the Dog for a Walk. The gallery again features an eclectic mix of photography, painting and video, reinstalled on a weekly basis over the duration of the summer. No two strolls through the gallery will be exactly alike.

Those already familiar with our neighbourhood will remember Susan Schelle’s slow, three-screen video installation, Deep Blue, Gareth Long’s lenticular photographs of the spaceship Challenger disaster, and John Kissick’s energetic acrylics on canvas. But they may not have seen Arthur Renwick’s native Church photographs, shown as part of the Emily Carr exhibition at the AGO, or Crystal Liu’s delicate Cake Drawings, or Roberto Pellegrinuzzi’s latest carbon digital photographs on rice paper. Yam Lau, new to the gallery, will exhibit stills from his video/animation, with a web uplink to his site. And what fun would a stroll through the neighbourhood be without Cliff Eyland’s Party Pictures in all of their resplendent nudity.

Whenever walking the dog back home, it’s wise to keep your nose to the wind and your eyes wide open. Elusive scents are often the most promising, everyday sights unexpectedly rewarding. Even the most familiar of neighbourhoods is full of surprises.