describing steir's 2010 installation at sue scott gallery, "the nearly endless line", which consisted of a white line snaking around the gallery's blue-black walls, lit with blue light, sharon butler writes in "the brooklyn rail", "walking through the darkened space, observers find themselves inside steir’s painting, where they become part of the illusion she has created with paint and light." pat steir said "i wanted to be a great artist, again not in slang in someone who is great. but in the fantastic, reaching the soul of other people."