Margaret Regan's art review "Divergent Practices" (Tucson Weekly, February 27, 1997), about a group show at Apparatus Gallery, contained two paragraphs the author amended before press time which we failed to correct. We apologize for the error. Sarah Kucerova is the artist who painted the untitled desert scene which Regan described as a "nicely painted little work, with an interesting palette." The following paragraphs about Simon Donovan are those that should have run in the original review: Simon Donovan, a painter who teaches at the Tucson Museum of Art school, is probably the best known of the artists in the show. He surfaced at Etherton Gallery last winter, showing large paintings that investigated the geometric and color relationships in Native American weavings. At a recent group show at Pima Community College, he exhibited large-scale pattern paintings. The four works at Apparatus, part of a series called "X," are mini-versions of those at Pima. Each of the four little canvases has been stretched into a diamond shape, and painted in an all-over pattern of circles or stripes. Donovan's deft colors are subtle variations on greens and golds. Abandoning the strong line of last year's Navajo-inspired works, the new paintings are all about texture. Donovan says they're an excavation of his own aesthetic, which has been influenced by everything from the ubiquitous linoleum floors of his childhood to the spatter paintings of Jackson Pollock. It's certainly true that his interests are varied. At the new Tucson Pima Art Council's show of work by the 1997 Visual Arts Fellowship award recipients and finalists, Donovan exhibits hand-carved reproductions of Mexican santos.

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