The opening reception and talk by artist Pinar Yoldas will be followed by a panel discussion and opening of "An Ecosystem of Excess", the Winter 2017 exhibition in the gallery@calit2, which runs from Feb. 2 through March 17, 2017.

Visitors and the public at large are invited to attend the opening reception on February 2 for “An Ecosystem of Excess”, the latest exhibition on display in the gallery@calit2 on the University of California San Diego campus. The gallery, located at the entrance to Atkinson Hall, the headquarters of Calit2’s Qualcomm Institute at UC San Diego, will treat visitors to a mind-expanding yet dystopic art show that asks a simple question: If life started today in our plastic debris-filled oceans, what kinds of life forms would emerge out of the contemporary primordial ooze?