Benard Frize is a French abstract painter. His paintings follow a strict set of formal rules, wherein the artist employs a controlled, manufacturing-like approach to the production of each piece that requires two assistants, limited color palettes, and large brushes. Though Frize works within the tradition of Color Field painters like Ad Reinhardt or Minimalists like Barnett Newman, his work stands out for its embellishment of specificity for a conceptual aim in and of itself—rather than glorifying any one process as key towards something beyond painting. “I need reasons to make a painting—the reason has to drive me happily to the painting,” he once quipped. “Yet I am always unsatisfied—that's why I am doing...