# Odd Flock Ceramic Totem

Birds and fish travelling upward together in olive, gold, purple, teal, and coral. Each creature hand-built, each one given its own distinct surface, scales and patterns worked carefully into every wing and fin. Purple spheres sit between them like punctuation, giving the whole procession a rhythm you feel before you fully understand it. Zimmerman has always loved animals and it shows. These creatures have no obvious business being together and yet they feel completely at ease in each other's company. As happy in a garden among plantings as it is inside against a wall.

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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

- Odd Flock Ceramic Totem – hand-built ceramic totem by Zimmerman with birds and fish travelling upward together in olive, gold, purple, teal, and coral, each creature with own distinct surface, purple spheres as punctuation giving procession its rhythm
- Odd Flock by Zimmerman – detail of hand-built bird and fish creatures with scales and patterns worked into every wing and fin in olive, gold, and teal glaze
- Odd Flock by Zimmerman – full view of joyful ceramic totem with birds, fish, and purple sphere punctuation travelling upward in olive, gold, and coral
- Odd Flock by Zimmerman – close-up of creature with observed animal affection in coral and teal glaze with intricate wing or fin surface marks
- Odd Flock by Zimmerman – totem as happy in a garden among plantings as inside against a wall with colors holding in both light conditions
- Odd Flock 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: 2026-05-20