# Live and Let Live Ceramic totem

Start at the bottom and work your way up. Faces, fish, and creatures you cannot quite name rise together through deep greens, burgundy, and warm earth, each one hand-built and covered in marks that Zimmerman drew directly into the clay. Each element was built separately, glazed on its own terms, and stacked in a process Zimmerman describes as intuitive - each form responding to the one below it. Nothing was planned from the top down. It grew. Zimmerman has been building worlds like this since his Venice Beach pottery days in the 1960s. Works equally well indoors as a room anchor or outside in a garden.

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## Details

- **Price:** 5200.0 USD
- **Vendor:** Art Scout
- **Type:** Ceramic Sculpture
- **Tags:** animal art, buy original art online, California artist, Carmel artist, ceramic sculpture, collector art, hand-built ceramic, Marc Zimmerman, totem

## Variants

| Variant | Price | Available |
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| Default Title | 5200.00 USD | In stock |

## Images

- Live and Let Live Ceramic Totem – tall hand-built ceramic totem by Zimmerman with faces, fish, and unnamed creatures rising through deep greens, burgundy, and warm earth, each element built separately and stacked intuitively growing from Venice Beach pottery tradition since the 1960s
- Live and Let Live by Zimmerman – detail of hand-built fish spreading wide near crown with marks drawn directly into clay in deep greens and warm earth
- Live and Let Live by Zimmerman – full view of tall ceramic totem stacking faces, fish, and creatures through deep greens and burgundy
- Live and Let Live by Zimmerman – close-up of hand-built creature with marks drawn into clay in warm earth and burgundy glaze
- Live and Let Live by Zimmerman – totem installed indoors as room anchor or outside in garden where textured surfaces catch natural light
- Live and Let Live Ceramic totem

## Additional Information

- **Dimensions:** 56'' 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