Retractable lighting fixture

A retractable lighting fixture, comprising:

• alighting fixture housing;
• a flexible multilayer lighting sheet retractably retainable within said lighting fixture housing, said multilayer lighting sheet movable between a retracted position at least partially retracted within said lighting fixture housing and an extended position protracted from said lighting fixture housing more than said retracted position;
• said multilayer lighting sheet having a LED layer and a diffusing optical layer over the LED layer;
• wherein portions of said LED layer and said optical layer are in an expanded spaced relation to one another when in said extended position and in a compressed relation to one another when in said retracted position;
• and a plurality of resilient interspacing structures interposed between said LED layer and said optical layer, said interspacing structures in an expanded state when said LED layer and said optical layer adjacent thereto are in said expanded spaced relation and in a contracted state when said LED layer and said optical layer adjacent thereto are in said compressed relation.

A retractable lighting fixture, comprising:

• a housing;
• a flexible LED lighting sheet retractably retainable within said housing, said LED lighting sheet movable between a retracted position at least partially retracted within said lighting fixture housing and an extended position protracted from said lighting fixture housing more than said retracted position;
• said LED lighting sheet having a plurality of LEDs selectively electrically connected to a power supply;
• said LEDs electrically connected in a plurality of distinct individually actuable groups, each of said groups including at least a single of said LEDs and lightable and extinguishable independently of other of said groups;
• a controller in electrical communication with each of said groups and selectively lighting and extinguishing each of said groups;
• wherein said controller causes each of said groups to be extinguished when said LEDs associated therewith are retracted within said lighting fixture housing.