# Associates in Teal Ceramic totem

A bird perches at the top surveying everything below. A face looks out with quiet authority from the middle of the stack. Fish forms appear further down, and between all of them bold abstract marks fill every surface in a sustained palette of teal, cream, and bare warm clay. The line work drawn into each element connects directly to Zimmerman's years as a printmaker. What makes this totem feel so resolved is the way the teal palette ties together very different forms - a bird, a face, a fish, abstract geometry - into something that reads as a single unified world from across the room. At seventy inches it changes whatever space it enters.

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## Details

- **Price:** 7000.0 USD
- **Vendor:** Art Scout
- **Type:** Ceramic Sculpture
- **Tags:** animal art, bird, buy original art online, California artist, ceramic sculpture, collector art, hand-built ceramic, Marc Zimmerman, totem

## Variants

| Variant | Price | Available |
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| Default Title | 7000.00 USD | In stock |

## Images

- Associates in Teal Ceramic Totem – tall 70-inch hand-built ceramic totem by Zimmerman with bird at crown, face with quiet authority in middle, fish forms below, bold abstract marks throughout in unified teal, cream, and warm clay palette from printmaker-turned-ceramicist
- Associates in Teal by Zimmerman – detail of teal-glazed bird at crown and abstract mark language drawn into clay in this unified world totem
- Associates in Teal by Zimmerman – full 70-inch view of bird, face, fish, and geometric forms unified by teal palette reading as single world from across room
- Associates in Teal by Zimmerman – close-up of face looking out with quiet authority amid teal glaze and printmaker-trained mark language
- Associates in Teal by Zimmerman – totem installed indoors or in garden where teal glazes take on different quality in natural light
- Associates in Teal Ceramic totem
- Associates in Teal Ceramic totem

## Additional Information

- **Dimensions:** 70'' high
- **Artist Material:** Ceramic
- **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