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12 , JUStpUt AUGUST 17.2007___________________ northwest Quality Pictures Will Show at Jupiter to do it myself. I must know more than I think I do,’ ” Schneider explained. Schellinger is a painter and installation artist Quality Pictures gallery owner Enk Schneider is whose work has appeared in the gallery. Schneider gearing up for The Affair @ the Jupiter Hotel in says about half of the work he September, where his gallery will shows is photography and the get to convert a hotel room into other half is in other visual media. a show rtxim for the weekend. He is fixzused now on showing “Not only will the art he un more artists who call the Pacific forgettable, the rixim will be Northwest home. He started unforgettable," said Schneider, showing work by Portland photog who was a little sketchy on the raphers Mark Hixiper and Holly details. “We have a number of Andres, both of whom had work featured in the new artists we’re going to give some exposure to in the Northwest at the Jupiter.” He is also chixising 2006 Oregon Biennial. Jayson Malone, a renowned female Starting in September, Quality Pictures will be impersonator in Las Vegas, has opened a quaint lower-priced works in the $500-and-up range, rather , showing the work of internationally recognized coffee shop in the Hollywood District. than the $4,000-$ 15,000 pieces usually featured at Quality Pictures. photographer and video Drag Star Goes Hollywood This is the third year of artist Jen Denike. Schneider The Affair @ the Jupiter describes her work as “polit Twenty-seven years ago, Jayson Malone Hotel, which provides art ically charged” and her sub performed as Marcy Kraft at the underage club professionals, collectors and jects as “20-year-old hotties.” Metropolis, now known as Dante’s. At the tender enthusiasts a place to con Schneider says Quality age of 18, he became the seventh Rosebud in what nect with the contemporary Pictures has done well in its is now up to its 31st member; he was still in high art scene. Schneider, 44, and first eight months, and he is schixil at the time. his gallery are relatively new excited about the future. At 21, Malone moved to Seattle, where he to the Portland art scene. “Opening any new business discovered he had a talent for impersonating Bette Schneider and his partner of is a combination of joy and Midler. In 1995, he wanted to take his show busi 12 years, Bryan Schellinger, terror, but in the past few ness to another level, so he packed his car with moved to Stumptown from months the joy has certainly wigs, dresses and men’s clothes and headed for Las Atlanta and opened Quality outweighed the terror.” Vegas with hopes of becoming a star. Pictures in December 2006. The Affair @ the Jupiter “I wanted to be an entertainer and have that as “There’s a very g<xxJ pho Hotel is from ntxin to my career," Malone said. He got what he dreamed tography dealer in Atlanta, 7 p.m. Sept. 15 and 16 at of and became the premier Bette Midler on the Las and once she started asking 800 E. Bumside St. Quality Vegas Strip under his real name. Gallery owner Erik Schneider promises me for advice on how to run an unforgettable display at The Affair Pictures is at 916 N.W. In the world-famous “An Evening at La Cage” her business, 1 said: ‘I have @ the Jupiter Hotel. 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They originally wanted to have a mailbox store, but “the idea morphed into a coffee shop.” After purchasing Sweet Indulgence from a Craigslist ad, the Malones personally gave the shop a makeover and recon structed the area into a welcoming, all-accepting cafe decorated with vintage pictures of Midler and a gallery of motel signs. “1 don’t want to own the next Starbucks,” said Malone. “I just want to work in a comfortable environment.” 42nd Street Coffee House offers soothing java from Longbottom Coffee & Tea, pastries from Delphina’s Bakery and organic juices from Columbia Gorge. Customers range from beauty schixil students to senior citizens to small children who enjoy 42nd Street’s hot chocolate. Drag star Poison Waters, a longtime friend of Malone along with the legendary Darcelle XV, walked from downtown Portland for a cup of joe. “She must have walked fast, because she was dripping wet when she got here,” said Malone. Malone did not think he would return to Portland but was embraced with such warmth that he decided to move back to the city where he was him. “Some things are more important than money,” he said. “Home and family are two of them.” © By J ulius C alasicas and J ulie S abatier VETERINARY Gay Shale! HOSPITAL Monday, Sept. 24th 7-9 pm so? sr pown i bi vd 232-3 I 05 Daks Park Roller Rink for mor« info, visit www.justout.com
