# Bird Feeder Totem

Zimmerman's totems often carry within them a suggestion of function, of use, of the object's life in the world beyond the gallery wall. This piece plays with that suggestion openly: a bird, perched or suggested at the column's crown, transforms the whole assemblage into something that could be read as garden architecture, as a station in the daily life of the yard, as a meeting point between the human-made and the naturally arriving. 

The bird in Zimmerman's ceramic vocabulary is among his recurring presences, a figure that connects his work to the long tradition of totemic bird imagery across indigenous cultures from the Pacific Northwest to West Africa. Here it is rendered with the warmth and simplicity that characterizes his handling of animal form: not a naturalist's study but an essence, a condensed statement of birdness, set atop the richly colored and textured shaft below. The column itself rises from a dark base through a range of ochres, rusts, and punctuating blues, the whole composition a kind of vertical garden in fired clay.

Please note: The base is not included. We will guide you through a simple installation process for outdoor or indoor placement.

## Details

- **Price:** 5500.0 USD
- **Vendor:** Art Scout

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## Additional Information

- **Dimensions:** 62"×5"×5"
- **Artist Material:** Ceramic Glaze totem
- **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: 2026-06-07