Steve La Riccia, a Eugene, Oregon based self- unemployed artist is well-known for his painterly SX-70 Polaroid manipulated photographic work produced from 1979 to 2009. Also a figure in the Eugene art scene, producing the popular “Salon des Refusés,” an art exhibition of refused artists from the Eugene's Mayor's Art Show since 1991, and the gallery coordinator for the New Zone Arts Collective, an alternative non-profit art gallery from 1995 to 2023.

Since 2011, La Riccia / Steamworks R & D Labs has created interactive and kinetic Steampunk, Dieselpunk & Atomicpunk contraptions cobbled together from antique found objects.

Currently, La Riccia is the president of The Museum of Techno Arts, a non-profit that showcases art with technology or industrial themes, reflecting on the history of human invention, retrofuturism or imaginative machines of the future.

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