Masao Gozu: Windows and Bars

Exhibition. Ends Mar 15, 2027. The first US museum exhibition to highlight the singular practice of Masao Gozu (Japanese, b. 1946), Windows and Bars presents a focused selection of his photographs dating from the 1970s through today. The exhibition highlights key works from Gozu’s Windows and Harry’s Bar series, opening apertures onto the city’s past and offering a quiet rumination on the sweep of time. Born in Nagano Prefecture, Japan, Gozu emigrated to New York City in 1970. Walking the city streets, he began to photograph the city’s inhabitants through the windows of tenement buildings, from Bay Ridge to Little Italy. An extended architectural study, the series suggests the window as a proscenium through which to glimpse the theater of everyday life. Gozu’s subjects rarely meet the gaze of the camera; ambiguous protagonists, they watch scenes unfolding outside of the frame.