Reception: 1 May 2011, 6:00pm—9:00pm

Things That Are Longing To Appear is a storefront installation/window display by artist Bill Talsma that consists of six modified “open & closed” signs presented at 244 W. 31st Street in Chicago. These signs—the kind usually displayed at small businesses—have been redesigned, rewritten and combined together to form a master sentence that spans the 6 objects. Subsequently, thoughts about the reappearance of things as reproduction are simultaneously woven across the signs (and through the master sentence) with smaller, prefabricated marquee-style letters.