Artwork

Possibly the first documented use of a printing press in the Abstract Expressionism Movement. Achilles was using this process as early as the 1950’s.

Achilles suffered from Night Terrors, often involving violent and harmful thrashing while asleep. These may be some of his nighttime demons.

Stefan Achilles, like his father before him, was an iron worker and machinist at Coulter & McKenzie, Inc, in Bridgeport CT. Sometime during the late 1940’s, he rescued a large, clunky, “etching press”, as he called it, from the company garbage heap, and stored it in his backyard shed that served as his studio. He […]

“Most of the work of painting is done before and after NEVER during the process”- Achilles

These ideographic strokes were influenced by Wilhelm Reich’s Theory of Orgone Energy. Achilles believed he was channeling this universal life force in these studies.

Philip Pavia, the sculptor and influential founder of It Is Magazine, encouraged his friend, Stefan, to put aside black inks and experiment with color.