While traveling in
Nepal and
India in 2004 Corbell contracted
Valley fever. He lost more than , experienced daily fevers, hallucinations, and distorted vision. He made it home to be treated by doctors at UCLA. Unable to practice martial arts for over a year due to medical complications, he began creating art. In 2004, Corbell began secretly harvesting local building demolitions for early-century windows and doors in the Los Angeles area. He began recycling them into art installations. Over the years Corbell has exhibited his work in private settings and galleries.
Exhibitions Some of the exhibitions by Corbell include: •
Death to Life: Corbell disassembled computers and embedded them into vintage doors and windows harvested from local Los Angeles demolitions. The pieces were distributed throughout the Los Angeles area and showed rotating imagery and sounds from his travels in Nepal and India. •
Factory Girl Exhibition: In coordination with a pre-premiere of
Factory Girl, Corbell exhibited an original body of work as part of a comparative exhibition with a series of privately owned
Andy Warhol paintings. •
ICON: Life Love & Style of Sharon Tate: In honor of the 40th anniversary of Sharon Tate's passing, with the blessing of the Tate family he created a 350-piece historic art exhibition celebrating Sharon Tate's style and life. The art and fashion based exhibition showcases images of her wardrobe by designers such as
Christian Dior,
Thea Porter,
Ossie Clark and
Yves Saint Laurent. •
Strange Love: An artistic collaboration between Corbell and Katrina Bea held in historic downtown Los Angeles. The body of work included assemblage works, paintings, photography, film and fashion. •
Bunraku Art Experience: Chateau Marmont: Held at the Chateau Marmont (Penthouse 64) in Hollywood California, Corbell hosted a one-night-only art installation for the cast of
Bukraku by director Guy Moshe. In lieu of a premiere, Corbell's art exhibition revealed images and art pieces of
Demi Moore,
Josh Hartnett,
Woody Harrelson,
Ron Perlman and
Kevin McKidd. ==Filmmaking and UFOlogy==