Bernard Frize (born 1949,[1] Saint-Mandé, France) is a French painter who works in a variety of materials and utilizes a multitude of techniques.
[2][3] As an artist he explores the bare minimal essence of painting, devoid of conception and aesthetic, instead focusing on an industrial approach to making art.
[4] His work is highly process-oriented, often requiring unconventional tools, materials, and the assistance of others to complete a painting.
[5] Frize looks at a painting as a search for an agreement between "nature", a viewer and a flat surface.
"[6] Frize's artworks have been exhibited extensively across Europe (Sans repentir at the Centre Pompidou curated by Angela Lampe in 2019[7]) and the UK (Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, as one example), as well as recently in the United States.