Mrs., a gallery in Maspeth, Queens, is celebrating ten years in business with an anniversary exhibition that reflects on how a small space on a leafy one-way street became a fixture for collectors. The show, "DECENNIUM: Ten Years at Mrs.", is a rotating display of 30 works by 23 artists, and it runs this autumn.

The gallery was founded by Sara Maria Salamone and Tyler Lafreniere, who found their storefront on Craigslist a decade ago. Since then it has worked with dozens of emerging artists, mounted 72 shows, and taken part in art fairs in Paris, South Korea and across the United States. Maspeth has never been thought of as an arts district in the way Bushwick or the East Village are, yet the gallery has drawn buyers from all over the world to western Queens, near the Long Island Expressway. Its associate director, Lily Frances Pendery, told Hyperallergic that visitors sometimes stop in on their way to the airport and end up buying a work, and that an adviser recently spent an hour and a half in the space.

The anniversary show is designed to echo the way the gallery itself has changed over the decade, with works rotating in and out rather than hanging as a fixed survey. That restless format suits a programme that has always moved quickly between artists and ideas, and it gives returning visitors a reason to come back during the run.

A decade of survival is a real achievement for an independent gallery of this size, especially one operating outside Manhattan's gallery districts. Mrs. has done it by backing emerging artists early and by treating every visitor as a serious collector, however they arrived. The anniversary is less a retrospective than a statement that the model still works: a small room in Queens, a changing roster, and a loyal audience willing to make the trip.