# Juxtaposition #2 Ceramic totem

A small bird surveys everything from the top. Below it a large fish spreads wide in purple, gold, and black stripes, fins extending outward with easy confidence. A face covered in teal and purple geometric marks looks out from below the fish, and the base element carries bold black and gold abstract marks that echo the visual language of Zimmerman's printmaking years. Every element in this totem has been given the same level of attention - from the bird at the top to the patterned base it reads as a single complete world. Equally at home indoors as a statement piece or outside in a garden where its height and detail draw the eye from across the space.

[Browse all works by Marc Zimmerman](/collections/marc-zimmerman)

## 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 |
|---------|-------|-----------|
| Default Title | 7500.00 USD | In stock |

## Images

- Juxtaposition 2 Ceramic Totem – hand-built ceramic totem by Zimmerman with small bird at top, large fish spreading wide in purple, gold, and black stripes, teal and purple geometric face below, bold black and gold abstract base marks from printmaking vocabulary
- Juxtaposition 2 by Zimmerman – detail of large fish spreading wide in purple, gold, and black stripes with fins extending outward with easy confidence
- Juxtaposition 2 by Zimmerman – full view of complete single world from small bird at top through striped fish and geometric face to bold black and gold base
- Juxtaposition 2 by Zimmerman – close-up of teal and purple geometric face marks connecting to printmaking years in hand-built ceramic totem
- Juxtaposition 2 by Zimmerman – totem as indoor statement or garden height-and-detail focal that draws eye from across the space
- Juxtaposition #2 Ceramic totem

## Additional Information

- **Dimensions:** 71'' 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.

---

> Source: [Art Scout](https://www.artscout.pro/products/juxtaposition-2-ceramic-totem)
> Updated: 2026-08-28