# Juxtaposition #1 Ceramic totem

A large face dominates the upper section, split across sage and purple-blue, a single eye looking out with calm self-possession. The forms below shift between organic and geometric - a rounded terracotta shape, a bold striped angular element, a painted sphere in purple and gold. At the very base a small face peers out from the lowest element, easy to miss and worth finding. Zimmerman's figurative painting sensibility is fully present here - the face has the same angular, Cubist-inflected confidence as the figures in his canvases, built from decades of studio work and a real understanding of how to make something look back at you.

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## Details

- **Price:** 7500.0 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 | 7500.00 USD | In stock |

## Images

- Juxtaposition 1 Ceramic Totem – hand-built ceramic totem by Zimmerman with large Cubist-inflected face split across sage and purple-blue at top, shifting organic and geometric forms below, small face at very base easy to miss and worth finding
- Juxtaposition 1 by Zimmerman – detail of large angular Cubist face split across sage and purple-blue with single calm self-possessed eye
- Juxtaposition 1 by Zimmerman – full view of totem with face dominating upper section, organic and geometric forms shifting below, and small hidden base face
- Juxtaposition 1 by Zimmerman – close-up of purple and gold sphere and bold striped angular element in shifting organic-geometric mid-section
- Juxtaposition 1 by Zimmerman – totem as strong indoor presence or garden command piece from decades of figurative painting and ceramic practice
- Juxtaposition #1 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