LONG BEACH, CA.- The University Art Museum CSU Long Beach presents Constructed Evidence: Work by Louis Hock, 2000-2006, on view through October 15, 2006. Louis Hock is a San Diego–based artist whose films, videotapes, and media installations over the past 20 years have often focused on the U.S./Mexican border region and taken-up issues around undocumented workers and immigration. The UAM will present the three major installations --- Pirámide del Sol: a monument to invisible labor (2000), Shelter (2002-06) and American Desert (2006) plus a photographic suite, Nightscope Series --- providing a rare opportunity to survey Hock’s work from the past six years, none of which has been shown in the Los Angeles area. For example, Pirámide del Sol: a Monument to Invisible Labor, (shown left) exhibited most recently at the La Panaderia in Mexico City, consists of hundreds of polypropylene plastic berry baskets stacked into a pyramid. The work compares the labor essential to the construction the ancient Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan to the picking of millions of tons of strawberries in California. All of Hock’s Nightscope Series will also be exhibited, some of which were components of the International Center for Photography’s acclaimed traveling exhibition Only Skin Deep.