Best Club-centric Cut-up

Terri Lord

Don't misunderstand us. For years, eons even, we've adored the special collage magic of her gig posters (Ed Hall, Joan Jett, her own Sincola and Lord Douglas Phillips), been in awe of her CD covers and illustrations (Handful, Sincola, The Austin, ahem, Chronicle), and in general worshipped at the altar of her various geniuses. But when Renaissance lady Terri Lord took to creating monthly calendars for Manor Road coffeehouse/community center/girl bar Gaby & Mo's a while back, it was an aesthetic alignment of the planets: a confluence of artistic brilliance, identity politics, and pop cultural master's thesis. As a bent cosmos of voodoo princesses and cowgirls, poodles and junior high cheerleaders, Campfire Girls, a mixmaster Buddha ("Two Turntables and Yoga Pose"), and Blair and Jo from Facts of Life in love ("Hope") slowly revealed itself, technical and aesthetic mastery added to the dead-on subject matter: With the devotion of Saint Therese and the eye of John Waters, Lord creates masterworks of gorgeously saturated color and perverse juxtaposition, realized in careful, subtle detail. Early this year she downshifted to focusing her zeitgeist-capturing powers on special event fliers for the club - lilting and hilarious odes to Monica Lewinsky, the Teletubbies, and genderfuck. See them soon, hopefully always, at a coffeehouse/community center/girl bar near you.