# Stone Perch #2 Ceramic totem

Copper and charcoal forms stack upward in a compact, energetic rhythm, each sphere hand-incised with its own pattern of marks. A broad bird spreads wide at the crown, wings open and still, as if it has just landed and is deciding whether to stay. At fifty-four inches this is one of the more intimate works in the Stone Perch series - well suited to a courtyard corner or a garden spot where it can be found rather than announced, though it holds its own equally well indoors on a plinth where the incised surface detail can be appreciated up close.

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## Details

- **Price:** 5000.0 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

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## Images

- Stone Perch 2 Ceramic Totem – 54-inch compact hand-built ceramic totem by Zimmerman with copper and charcoal forms stacking upward in energetic rhythm, broad bird at crown with wings open just landed, hand-incised sphere patterns appreciated up close on plinth or in courtyard
- Stone Perch 2 by Zimmerman – detail of broad bird with wings open at crown of copper and charcoal stacked incised sphere totem
- Stone Perch 2 by Zimmerman – full 54-inch view of intimate Stone Perch series totem in copper and charcoal with incised sphere surfaces
- Stone Perch 2 by Zimmerman – close-up of hand-incised sphere pattern in copper ceramic that can be found rather than announced in courtyard corner
- Stone Perch 2 by Zimmerman – totem in sheltered garden spot or on plinth where incised surface detail is appreciated up close
- Stone Perch #2 Ceramic totem

## Additional Information

- **Dimensions:** 54'' 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