Kyra Lorden’s art is going places, maybe even to New York City.

The Old Rochester Regional High School senior recently received four awards in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards’ regional competition.

Two of her drawings received the highest award, the Gold Key, and will go on to compete in the national competition. Winners' work will be exhibited in New York City.

“I sent my entire portfolio, and I ended up with the two art pieces,” said Lorden.

One of the winning pieces is a true-to-life illustration of the school’s art closet. Lorden chose the closet, full of bottles, brushes and other art supplies, because it would be a challenge to capture all of the detail.

Her other award winning piece, titled “Not Just Your Object (Head)” is a pop art piece with a message. It features a woman with a television for a head that reads “Your sexist jokes are boring.”

“It’s a statement on today’s media,” said Lorden.

In her work, Lorden said, “feminism comes up a lot and social issues.”

She also gathers a lot of inspiration from her friends and cartoons, but lets her creative muse move her work, too.

“I just kind of go and try my best . . . basically anything that interests me,” said Lorden, who lives with her father in Marion.

When it comes to her writing, Lorden said she often pens darker pieces informed by her love of books such as Chuck Palahniuk’s “Fight Club.”

Lorden received Silver Keys in the Scholastic competition for two written pieces, one a short story about a prostitute trying to pay her way through school.

The other piece was a more personal essay about coming out as bisexual to her mother.

“Even though it didn’t work out that well, it’s something I wouldn’t take back, but it was important for me to write an essay about that,” said Lorden.

While she enjoys writing, Lorden said art comes first.

“If I didn’t go anywhere with my art, I would try to write as a living,” she said. “So far, my art future is looking pretty good.”

With only a few months left of school, Lorden has already been accepted to all four colleges where she applied. She will matriculate to the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in the fall.