Steve La Riccia, a Eugene, Oregon based self-unemployed artist has been well-known for his painterly SX-70 Polaroid manipulated photographic work for over 30 years. He is 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 from 1991 to 2009, and for over the past 15 years has been the gallery coordinator for the New Zone Arts Collective, an alternative non-profit art gallery – newzonegallery.org.