Philadelphia Inquirer - 1966

Victoria Donohoe

Johnny Aiello, who also accepts the importance of everyday and the ordinary, reveals a rare gift for remarkable pictorial invention and an obvious flair for color in both the soft and the bright range, in his oils and in the myriad small prints, gouaches and drawings displayed at the Towne Gallery, 2116 Locust St. Color and supple line often speak for themselves in Aiello’s very vital work which tends to be diagrammatic and telegraphic of reality rather than possessing the trivia of realism.