# Small Earthtone Ceramic Totem

At a smaller scale than the garden-commanding columns, this totem is a concentrated version of Zimmerman's visual intelligence: everything that operates across six feet of stacked form is here compressed into a piece that can sit on a table, a shelf, or a windowsill, bringing the same quality of handmade presence into intimate domestic space. The earthtone palette, amber, rust, warm brown, the color of unglazed clay and of autumn light, gives the piece an organic quietness that makes it easy to live with and harder than expected to stop looking at. Each of the individual forms was separately sculpted and fired before being assembled, and at this scale the precision of that process is especially apparent: the forms fit together with the ease of something that seems to have grown rather than been made, each element sitting on the one below with a naturalness that only comes from a deep knowledge of the material. Mounted on a wood base, the piece is grounded and domestic, a small ambassador from Zimmerman's larger ceramic world.

## Details

- **Price:** 1800.0 USD
- **Vendor:** Art Scout

## Variants

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| Default Title | 1800.00 USD | In stock |

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- Small Earthtone Ceramic Totem
- Small Earthtone Ceramic Totem

## Additional Information

- **Dimensions:** 31"×9"×11"
- **Artist Material:** Ceramic totem sculpture
- **Artist Name:** Marc Zimmerman
- **About The Artist Link:** https://www.artscout.pro/collections/marc-zimmerman

### About The Artist Content

Marc Zimmerman is an American painter and ceramic sculptor based in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, recognized for exuberant, color-driven works that fuse tropical imagery, figurative elements, and stylized botanical forms. Across both canvas and clay, his practice is defined by a playful visual language and a confident orchestration of color that feels at once joyful, intuitive, and structurally resolved.

Zimmerman’s distinctive vocabulary was shaped early through his work in woodcut printmaking, which instilled the crisp edges and compositional clarity that continue to anchor his paintings today. His lush, immersive environments draw inspiration from the dreamlike worlds of Henri Rousseau and Paul Gauguin, while extended periods living and painting in Kauai, Hawaii, as well as time in Mexico and Europe, infused his work with the saturated light and rhythmic vitality that define his celebrated Jungle and Tropical Fantasy Floral series.

In recent years, Zimmerman has returned to his earliest artistic passion, clay, expanding his practice into the sculptural realm with his Garden Totems. These vertically stacked ceramic works are hand-built and individually glazed, each element supporting the next in a spontaneous, intuitive process. Rooted in his pottery background from Venice Beach in the 1960s and 70s, the totems translate his painterly sensibility into three dimensions, bringing the same sense of movement, humor, and joie de vivre into the garden or interior space.

A lifelong artist with more than four decades of studio practice, Zimmerman has been an active presence on the Monterey Peninsula since the 1990s. His work is represented by galleries in California, Florida, and New York, and is held in private collections throughout the United States and internationally.

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> Updated: 2026-08-28