Works of Andy Warhol on the menu for art gallery exhibit

The Art Gallery of Windsor is featuring works by Andy Warhol as part of a four-month long exhibit called The Sandwich Project Part Two.

The Sandwich Project is a double entendre exhibit with as many metaphoric layers as a hero sandwich. The first exhibition last year featured works which considered Old Sandwich Towne and the notion that food is a vehicle through which to map history.

This year's exhibit features a more commercial view of food art.

"This summer we're looking at Sandwich through an economic lens and looking at it from a business perspective," said Jaclyn Meloche, Curator of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Windsor.

One of Warhol's most famous food-related works of art was his paintings of Campbell Soup cans.

One of the original stencils is on display in a cabinet. But most of the 27 works span Warhol's career — including his time as a commercial artist.

"What this exhibition will tell us is that he had an early interest in food from his career in the 1950's all the way to his death in 1987," said Jose Diaz, Chief Curator of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburg, from where the paintings are on loan.

Also at the exhibit is Andy Warhol: EAT — a 45-minute, black and white, avant-garde silent film featuring American pop artist Robert Indiana slowly eating a single mushroom.

The exhibit is rounded out with multiple works by University of Windsor professor emeritus Iain Baxter&, The Contemporary Sandwich Shop and AGW's own collection of works called Still Life: Food for the Eye, Mind and Body.

The show kicks off Friday with a private tour of the Warhol exhibit by Diaz for gallery members.

The exhibition opens to the public Saturday and runs through September 30.