Paintings

The Pink Armchair Portrait Project began during COVID, when painter Ben Fine, searching for connection amid isolation, spent 18 months creating twelve portraits of friends and family—sometimes separated by plexiglass. The pink armchair emerged as both symbol and stage: a worn, mid-century, living-room recliner anchoring each portrait in a shared physical setting. Seated in the same chair, each sitter occupies a space that is at once communal and deeply personal, revealing subtle threads of connection between strangers while allowing every individual to inhabit their own distinct emotional universe. First exhibited together in a grid, the portraits generated unexpected visual and emotional resonances, highlighting individuality within a common framework and affirming the resilience and vitality of collective human presence