Following fading into obscurity, the late artist Francis Hines is gaining new awareness immediately after a automobile mechanic rescued hundreds of his paintings from a dumpster in Connecticut. Hines, an summary expressionist, garnered some recognition in 1980 by employing fabric to wrap the arch in New York City’s Washington Square in an intricate crisscross pattern. But he held a minimal profile and drifted out of the art world’s highlight, passing away in 2016. The trove of paintings, most employing his signature wrapping style, was found a yr afterwards — and that is wherever the artist’s route to rediscovery began. An exhibit of the found art will open up May perhaps…