# Stone Perch #1 Ceramic totem

A fish crowns the top, flat and wide, its surface mapped with incised geometric marks. Below it a long face looks out sideways, alert and quietly present. The forms below alternate between warm coral-bronze and darker charcoal, each one carrying its own pattern of spirals, scales, and botanical marks, until the whole thing comes to rest on a wide patterned disc base. Seventy-one inches of hand-built ceramic, animals and faces and marks coexisting in a world entirely Zimmerman's own. Works with equal ease as an indoor statement piece or as a focal point in a garden where its scale and presence can be fully appreciated.

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## Details

- **Price:** 6500.0 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 | 6500.00 USD | In stock |

## Images

- Stone Perch 1 Ceramic Totem – 71-inch hand-built ceramic totem by Zimmerman with flat fish at crown mapped in incised geometric marks, long sideways-looking face below, alternating coral-bronze and charcoal forms with spirals and botanical marks on patterned disc base
- Stone Perch 1 by Zimmerman – detail of flat fish at crown with incised geometric marks and long sideways-looking face in coral-bronze ceramic totem
- Stone Perch 1 by Zimmerman – full 71-inch view of animals, faces, and marks coexisting in hand-built world on patterned disc base
- Stone Perch 1 by Zimmerman – close-up of coral-bronze forms with spirals and botanical marks alternating with charcoal in 71-inch ceramic statement
- Stone Perch 1 by Zimmerman – totem as indoor statement or garden focal point where its scale and presence can be fully appreciated
- Stone Perch #1 Ceramic totem

## Additional Information

- **Dimensions:** 71" H × 13" W
- **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