Join us on FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14th, from 6:00-9:00 PM
at our Dallas gallery to celebrate the opening for
WHEN THE LAND SPOKE FIRST
A Solo Exhibition & Film Screening by Beau Simmons
7:30 PM | Film Screening Begins
7:40 - 8:00 PM | Beau Simmons’ Artist Talk
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Before fences, before roads, before words—there was land. Vast, untamed, and speaking in the language of wind, stone, and thunder. This collection is a tribute to that original voice—the raw and sacred West—and to those who still know how to listen.
Set against sweeping canyons, open plains, and skies heavy with storm, these photographs capture cowboys as they once were and still are: not just riders of the land, but part of it. They move with purpose, shaped by weather and terrain, bound by duty and silence. There is no performance here-only truth. A life lived by rhythm: of hoofbeats, lightning, and breath.
In these scenes, the Western lifestyle is not nostalgia-it's necessity. A code of endurance, of reverence for the land, and of honoring the spaces that shaped the American soul. Every image is a reminder that out here, the story begins not with man, but with the earth beneath him.
These latest artworks by Beau Simmons are a collection of moments captured in some of the most remote landscapes, some of which may never be seen again in our lifetime. This new series has been several years in the making and is one of Beau's only shows to showcase more color photography than ever before in his body of work. Some of the photographs featured in this exhibition have put Beau in difficult situations. From breaking film cameras to having horses fall on top of him, this series is a love letter to the extreme conditions Beau is faced with at times when documenting this rugged lifestyle.
In addition, the exhibition debuts a new series of cowboy portraits that push deeper into the myth and reality of the American West. These works move beyond the wide horizon to study the individual and quiet moments of solitude that reveal the humanity within the archetype. By turning his lens toward the cowboy himself, Simmons not only preserves a way of life that is disappearing, but elevates it into the realm of fine art: timeless, unembellished, and unflinchingly true.