The Pink Armchair Portraits evolved into a series of rapid portraits created live using a sharpie marker and completed in under seven minutes. Working with the Jersey City Printroom, Ben Fine developed a linocut print of the empty pink armchair, allowing each sitter to appear within a shared visual frame.

By reducing the image to black marker ink over the printed chair, the project became portable and immediate, enabling Fine to bring the work beyond his studio and into galleries and public spaces across the city. These quick drawings trade polish for presence, capturing fleeting moments of human connection.