Alone, alone, all, all alone at Ehrlich Steinberg

Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea!
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798

alone (adj., adv.)
“unaccompanied, solitary; without companions,” c. 1300, a contraction of all ane, from Old English all ana“unaccompanied, all by oneself,” literally “wholly oneself,” from all “all, wholly” (see all) + an “one” (see one). It preserves the old pronunciation of one.

Similar compounds are found in German (allein) and Dutch (alleen). The sense of “and nothing else” is from c. 1200, as in “Man does not live by bread alone” (Matthew iv.4, KJV; there Tyndale has “man shall not lyve by brede onlye”). Related: Aloneness. Adverbial alonely seems to have become obsolete 17c.

This exhibition examines the relationship between connection and withdrawal, and the mix of distance and immediacy that structures contemporary living. Loneliness has become ambient rather than exceptional: life is shaped by numbing connectivity, terminally online habits, and the accelerating drift toward isolation even within spaces and platforms nominally designed for togetherness. Desire both sharpens and stalls as communication filters through avatars and algorithms, which promise intimacy while reinforcing its scarcity. Closeness has become a provisional state, felt more as anticipation than encounter.

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Artist Biographies

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Ramsey Alderson (b. 1991, San Pedro, CA) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Previous solo exhibitions include Up, Column #3 at Giselle’s Books, Marseille, FR (2026); D’or at Tiffany’s Door, Los Angeles, CA (2025); Sleep at Commercial Street, Los Angeles, CA (2023); Heaven on Earth at Gaylord Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA (2023). Recent and previous group exhibitions include Alone, alone, all, all alone at Ehrlich Steinberg, Los Angeles, CA (2026); Tom’s Stretch at David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2026); Afternoon of a Faun at Timeshare, Los Angeles, CA (2026); I did it myself at Amity, Los Angeles, CA (2026); Art Isn’t Fair at Clementine Seedorf, Cologne, DE (2024); Summer Group Show at Soldes, Los Angeles, CA (2024). Alderson is currently attending the Graduate Fine Arts program at ArtCenter in Pasadena, CA.

Ella Fleck (b. 1993, London, UK) lives and works in London, UK. Fleck received her BA in English Literature from the University of Exeter in 2014 and is currently completing an MFA at Goldsmiths, University of London for 2026. Solo exhibitions include Training Material at Frieze London with Ehrlich Steinberg, London, UK (upcoming); Spray at Season 4 Episode 6, London, UK (2025); NADA House at New Art Dealers Alliance, Governors Island, NY (2024). Selected group exhibitions include 15th Kaunas Biennial, Kaunas, LT (2025); Return of the Repressed, curated by Toby Ziegler, London, UK (2025); Solid, Liquid, Gas at St Margaret’s House Chapel, London, UK (2025); La Petite Mort at APT Gallery, London, UK (2024); Mirror Stage at Shipton Gallery, London, UK (2023); Think Before You Print at Galerie von Empfangshalle, Munich, DE (2023); Jumper at Harkawik, New York, NY (2021); SUNSCREEN at 4649, Tokyo, JP (2020). Fleck’s work has been reviewed in publications including i-D, Twin Magazine, Plaster, The White Pube, The Toe Rag, and Modern Weekly Style. Her writing has appeared in Frieze, Montez Press, Art Et Al., JuneArt.io, Emergent Magazine, and All Inclusive.

Ant Łakomsk (b. 2001, Toruń, PL) lives and works in Warsaw, PL. Łakomsk received her MFA from Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 2025. Her solo exhibitions include Brunette at Brunette Coleman, London, UK (2026) and Camille at Turnus, Warsaw, PL (2025). Selected group exhibitions include Adolescence at Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, PL (2026); Adaptacja at Marcelle Alix, Paris, FR (2026); Correspondences at François Ghebaly, Los Angeles, CA (2025); STEADYSTATE at Zero..., Milan, IT (2025). In 2025, she was awarded the ING Polish Art Foundation Prize and the Paszport Polityki Award. In the fall of 2026, Łakomsk will present a solo project as part of the Emergence section of Art Basel Paris with Stereo, Warsaw.

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Erin Calla Watson (b. 1993, Los Angeles, CA) lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She received her MFA from California Institute of the Arts in 2023. Previous solo exhibitions include Nymph at Ehrlich Steinberg, Los Angeles, CA (2025); Laddy Daddy Dah at Rinde am Rhein, Dusseldorf, DE (2024); (Untitled) n.d. at Foxy Production, New York, NY (2023); KYLE at Larder, Los Angeles, CA (2022). Selected group exhibitions include Everything looks dark now at Bel Ami, Los Angeles, CA (2026); Display at Ehrlich Steinberg, Los Angeles, CA; Proof of Concept: Photography at Briefing Room, Brussels, BE (2024); Unto Dust at Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris, FR (2023); Video Store at Foxy Production, New York, NY (2023); a somewhat thin line at In Lieu, Los Angeles, CA; At Land at Foxy Production, New York, NY (2022); The Conspiracy of Art: Part II at Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles, CA (2020). Calla Watson’s work has been featured in publications including Artforum, Artillery, CARLA, Cultured, Mousse, Numero, Objectiv, Section, and STUDIO Magazine. The artist is included in the upcoming group exhibition GAG: The Art of Comic Trouble at the George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY (2026).