Marc Zimmerman
Oil on canvas
36"×48"
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The Piece
In this imaginative composition, Marc brings together architectural forms and oversized white florals in a way that feels both dreamlike and grounded. The village unfolds beneath the blooms, creating an engaging contrast between intimate built space and expansive botanical scale.
The soft whites of the flowers are beautifully set against the warm, earthy tones of the village, allowing both elements to remain distinct while still feeling unified. Marc’s confident outlines and simplified shapes keep the composition clear and approachable.
There is a gentle sense of storytelling here, as if the village and the flowers are sharing the same quiet moment.
The Artist
The Artist
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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