# Stone Perch #4 Ceramic totem

A plump bird perches at the crown, its whole body covered in layered scale marks that seem to hold warmth within them. Below it copper-bronze and slate forms move downward in an easy rhythm until a face appears near the middle, looking out with the calm directness that runs through all of Zimmerman's figurative work. The warmth of the copper tones throughout this piece gives it a quality that draws you toward it before you have quite decided to move. A totem that feels genuinely alive in changing light, equally at home indoors or placed outside where morning and afternoon sun can move across its surface.

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## Details

- **Price:** 5900.0 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 4 Ceramic Totem – hand-built ceramic totem by Zimmerman with plump layered-scale bird at crown, copper-bronze and slate forms in easy rhythm below, calm direct face near middle, drawing you toward it before you have decided to move
- Stone Perch 4 by Zimmerman – detail of plump bird with layered scale marks holding warmth at crown of copper-bronze totem
- Stone Perch 4 by Zimmerman – full view of copper-bronze and slate totem with warm face near middle in easy downward rhythm
- Stone Perch 4 by Zimmerman – close-up of copper-bronze warmth and calm direct face in hand-built ceramic that feels alive in changing light
- Stone Perch 4 by Zimmerman – totem indoors or outside where morning and afternoon sun move across warm copper surface
- Stone Perch #4 Ceramic totem

## Additional Information

- **Dimensions:** 62'' 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