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Yosemite Bark Houses
Albert Bierstadt painted numerous grand Yosemite Valley landscapes. With only one or two exceptions among his finished works, the Ahwahneechee — Yosemite’s first people — are entirely absent. Yosemite Bark Houses responds to the omission of a people whose relationship to that valley spans thousands of years. Painted on transparent acrylic in the palette, light, and scale of a specific Bierstadt canvas and installed directly in front of it, each panel interrupts a vision of Yosemite shaped by the ideology of Manifest Destiny.
Jonas Kulikauskas, Yosemite Bark House No. 1 (2026), acrylic on transparent panel, installed in front of Albert Bierstadt's Looking Up the Yosemite Valley (c. 1863–67), Haggin Museum, Stockton, California.
Exhibitions
Haggin Museum — Stockton, California
November 4 – November 29, 2026
hagginmuseum.org/exhibitions/yosemite-bark-houses
Yosemite Bark Houses premieres at the Haggin Museum in Stockton, California, where the three Bierstadt Yosemite Valley landscapes that inspired the project are held in the permanent collection. The installation is presented in the American Art Gallery, with three acrylic panels installed in front of Albert Bierstadt's Looking Up the Yosemite Valley (c. 1863–67), Yosemite Valley, and Sunset in the Yosemite Valley.
Artist Talk
Jonas Kulikauskas — Sunday, November 8, 2026, 3:00 PM